Why your home is probably contaminated

According to healthychildren.org, did you know that every year over half of the 2.4 million people who either swallow or come into contact with poisons are under the age of six years of age? And it's no wonder. Look in your kitchen or bathroom cupboards. Really look. What do you see? If you're like most Americans, you see [...]

Bacteria & Food: Is 5-second rule mankind’s undoing?

After reading this article, Scientists Study What to Do If You Drop a Cookie on the Floor, I began to think about mankind's dilemma of "eat it or not eat it" after dropping prized, delectable morsels.

When a recovering journalist/writer turned nutritionist goes book shopping

Last week my partner and I had discovered a new used bookstore locally, and found ourselves in a toyland. We're obsessed with anything that has pages sandwiched between two decorative flaps. It's the same every time: My partner immediately finds himself tugged toward the art or graphic novel section, and I toward the self-help, crafts [...]

Going unplugged

On this day, National Day of Unplugging, the irony is not lost on me that I post this blog on a day that if you were truly observing this much-needed holiday, you would not be reading it. So, shame on you. You disgrace yourself and this holiday with your device tethered to you like an [...]

Desert gardening: Miracles do happen!

As I had mentioned in an earlier post, my partner and I have taken to gardening out here in Arizona. It took eight days and a night for these little beauties to emerge. *chokes back verklempt sigh of pride.*  They began reaching for the sky right after a substantial rainfall this past weekend, that is [...]