Pickle that!

I have discovered a new word. This in itself is an event at this stage of life – I am more forgetting rather than remembering new words. Perhaps this word is not new to you. Bourdain taught it to me first and I spend a couple of months feeling separate from the group of beings…

Friendly Tummy Bacteria

As any Herbalist or Naturopath will say, “If the gut is not working … nothing is working!” And this is even more true when trying to correct any kind of departure from positive goal oriented mood experiences. Wellbeing in the mind begins with the stomach. This is after all the body’s furnace and source of…

Big Girl! You are Beaut-iful!

Dita Von Teese, a Feminist? Who’da thunk? The pursuit of Authenticity absolutely requires creativity for without creativity – how can you reveal yourself to yourself sufficiently that your wings can dry and you can fly? A creative curious mind is a beautiful thing and requires openness to emotion, to experience, to ideas and possibilities. In…