On New Years, I started a hair care experiment using ONLY WATER to wash my hair. I’m calling this water-washing. SEE POST ONE. No shampoo. No conditioner. No anti-frizz. No anti-humidity spray. No curling mousse. No baking soda. No apple cider vinegar. JUST. WATER. Well, filtered water. I wouldn’t wash treated city water, because there…
I want to punch Arm & Hammer in the face. Yes, okay, I like their baking soda. But this rant is about their kitty litter. Poor Frank. He has had litter duty almost every day now for the last few months for MY cat because I can’t scoop the litter without getting wheezy. I used…
My first experience with raw milk happened in the throes of labor… No, not my labor. I was doula-ing for a single first-time mother a couple of years ago, and she lived a little ways outside of town with her parents. Her parents had a farm with many cows, and her mother had a milk…
Throughout history, poets and prose writers, lyricists and balladeers have written about the beauty of woman. Her intriguing eyes, delicate skilled hands, and, of course, her magnificent shining tresses falling gently on shoulders. Such hair is the pride of she who wears it. But it doesn’t come without effort, does it? Long before commercial hair…
Eggs. Should seem simple, right? But these days, with all the marketing gobbledygook to sift through, it can take a mini-handbook just to figure out what you’re buying. Today, between 95-98% of eggs sold in the United States are from battery cage hens. These poor hens spend their entire lives, crammed 4-5 hens to a…
In the past I had participated in the “No Shave November” craze for a couple reasons. One was camaraderie with friends, but I did it mostly because I was lazy. I have never liked shaving. Nope. Never. In November 2010, I did “No Shave November” again, telling my wife, jokingly, that all the guys were…