Garden of Eatin’ (good things bear repeatin’) by Michael Braunstein When technology fails, when the grid goes down, when the dollar and the economy collapse, you’ll still want to eat. Will you know how? Supermarkets won’t help. With trucks at a standstill, within hours after the crash, store shelves will be bare. With electric power […]
Spring Cleaning What’s Under the Sink? by Michael Braunstein Read this sentence carefully: Humans have found, invented or synthesized over 50 million different chemicals over the course of history, the vast majority of them since World War II. That’s millions of chemicals the human body, or the world, for that matter, has never experienced or […]
Toxic Showers Is your daily sprinkle doing more harm than good? by Michael Braunstein Right after air and far ahead of food, we need water to stay alive. The adage is that a human can live three minutes without air, three days without water and three […]
Bibliotherapy: Five Books to Change Your Life I guess it peaked in the “Me Decade” of the 1970s, (coined such by the late Tom Wolfe.) Gurus then, of one sort or another, were a dime a dozen. Books to help you help yourself were just about the same going rate. […]
Battery Drain on the Body Clock As much as our human hubris would like to think we are separate from Nature, we are not. Humanity seems obsessed with its attempt to dominate and control the world around us. Pure folly. Good luck with that. Nature wins. We have […]
“I jes watched me sum a dem dere polly-tishuns in Warshington flappin’ dere gums un tellin’ me how deys gonna bring down da cost of perscripshun drugs so’s I an’ da missus kin afford ‘em. I luvs watchin’ dem big polly-tishuns move dere lips like dat. Makes me wonder who’s really pullin’ […]
Homeopathy: What it is. What it ain’t. At a mere 75 pounds, Gina is the smallest German Shepherd I’ve ever owned. But she’s the strongest. A willful, impulsive and urgent six-year old red-and-black, she darted from the camper one day in April to chase a squirrel. I wasn’t ready and […]
Nature Deficit Disorder Our disconnect from nature is killing us This is a big country. We have a lot of open space, a lot of what we might call “nature.” But having traveled 46 of the 50 states, I will attest that nature is being tested by human […]
Herbal Medicine: Look for the Green Cross Dateline: Los Angeles, Calif., April 20, 2018 You can search the internet and never find the certain connection between “420” and smoking dope. Yes, “dope” is what we used to call it back in the “good ol’ days.” The word wasn’t pejorative at […]
We’re Toast — Awash in a sea of radiation I had a first generation cell phone. It was about the size of a brick and about as heavy. The reception was worse than a brick. I got it so I could be on call when my mom was seriously ill back in the […]
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