EcoMetro

There is currently a distinct alternative/allopathic divide in my household. The kids and I are battling the first big bad cold of the winter, and using very different forms of treatment. Some of it isn’t different. Everyone is wearing pajamas and has tea and juice, but the children are on a variety...

While I might grow my own microgreens, buy Country Natural Beef, and gallons of lavender oil, the truth is that I’m sort-of tense most of the time. In periodic efforts to counter this, I read New Age publications. I suppose I am hoping that in between the ads offering colonic hygiene and protection from...

I’m no doctor, nor would I suggest that anyone even listen to my opinion on anything, but I do know that shooting up my kids with a mercury-based preservative does not sound like a good idea. And I’m willing to risk the flu for it. The children and I were just in for my daughter’s eye appointment at...

This is the time of year when I see almost everyone as a potential health hazard. My husband, who rides Tri-Met on the days he doesn’t cycle, has grown used to my looks of distaste if he doesn’t wash up before touching me or the kids after coming home (all those people with their moist germy hands squeezing...

Last night I was listening to the Last Temptation of Christ soundtrack, soaking in a hot candlelit bubble bath, gorgeously alone, my children soundly asleep A FULL 90 MINUTES AFTER I HAD PLANNED THEM TO BE (but that’s over now, and I can move on), exfoliating my feet. This completely deserved bliss went...