What is Holistic Skin Care?

When certain concepts or words bombard us too frequently in mass marketing like “Organic”, “Sustainable”, and “Holistic”- I don’t know about you, but for me those words which represent important… Read More

Get Back to Doing What You Love

Get Back to Doing What You Love Our lives are busy. We’re constantly on the move taking care of families, work obligations, nurturing relationships through social commitments, engaging in physical… Read More

Breathe It In

Go outside!  Don’t think about it; just do it. We almost get used to the doom and gloom of the Northwest after a while.  At least, I think I do, but I think I… Read More

Top Ways to De-stress

Let’s face it, stress is something that’s part of our every day life, whether we acknowledge it or not. De-stressing is similar to eating healthy- we know we need to… Read More

The Healing Power of Nature

The BBC News Services reports that retirees who live near green open spaces “live much longer than those stuck in the ‘concrete jungle’”. The report cites research done at a… Read More

Dealing with Seasonal Allergies

Spring means flower buds and blooming trees – and if you’re one of the millions of people who have springtime allergies, it also means sneezing, congestion, runny nose and other… Read More

Happy Trails

Now that spring is here, it is time for me to get back on my running schedule and I love doing it outside as often as possible. However, when doing… Read More

Feminism

Feminism.  This word hadn’t come up in a while for me, but has suddenly popped up repeatedly.  I wrote an article a few years back about women in punk music,… Read More

Are Females the Greener Gender

I recently came across a blog on Gaiam.com by Alison Neumer Lara, republished with permission from Earth911, entitled: Are females really the greener gender? I thought it was relevant as… Read More

Self Care 101 – Spring Seedlings

January 1st never felt quite right to me to celebrate and honor the new year’s turnaround, with it’s inherent hope and determination of starting anew for ourselves. It’s still the middle of… Read More

Spring Forward

Hearing the term ‘spring forward’ so much lately has me daydreaming about the day that it actually starts to feel like spring. Many of my daydreams tend to have a… Read More

We Are Not Limited

“Punk is not limited. Punk embraces everything but rejects ignorance. Punk grows like a tree. Punk is universal. Punk is fun, humor, rebellion and individualism. It’s like a child: free,… Read More