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Category Archives: Dining Room
A Beautiful Truth
Set aside an hour and a half of your time to watch this movie. It could change your life. It did mine.
Beauty Detox
For the past week, I have been squeezing half a lemon into hot water first thing in the morning. This, I sipped slowly to wake my senses up and get my body’s digestive juices going. I picked up this little … Continue reading
Farmers Market Finds
Our local farmers market is back! The Coastside Farmers Market at Rockaway Beach in Pacifica, California is the best source of locally grown produce from May through November. Today was the first farmers market day of the year. It was … Continue reading
How to Zap
My family uses a zapper to keep ourselves healthy. The video above is of my husband demonstrating how to use a zapper. I’ve explained what zapping and the zapper is in my blog entry, Doing Nothing When My Child is … Continue reading
Lemon Garlic Tea
Well, actually this recipe is listed as Garlic Lemonade in Aviva Jill Romm’s book, “Vaccinations: A Thoughtful Parent’s Guide: How to Make Safe, Sensible Decisions about the Risks, Benefits, and Alternatives.” Among recipes for boosting immunity, this one excited me … Continue reading
Doing Nothing When My Child is Sick
There is nothing worse for a parent than having a sick child. There is no sleeping when the germs are having their way with our kids. And as a reward for our care, we parents get a dose of the … Continue reading
Thanksgiving Dinner
Here it comes again, Thanksgiving Dinner. I have always been into this holiday more as a celebration of harvest and abundance than as a remembrance of the historical Native American/Euro-colonial interchange. Must come from my non-American-born roots. I knocked myself … Continue reading
Breastfeeding: The Art of Being a Woman
Breastfeeding is what I’ve found to be the most profound expression of motherhood. Not labor and delivery of the baby, not pregnancy, not conception, all important and indispensable stages of becoming a mother. When I say breastfeeding is the most … Continue reading
Busting Breastfeeding Myths
Ever since my baby was born, I’ve heard a number of breastfeeding myths from my mother and some aunts, women whose parenting skills were shaped during the ’70’s, when milk companies took advantage of the women’s liberation movement to sell … Continue reading
