Because natural isn't always possible — or easy.
Posted in Eating Healthy, Food, Friendship, Health, Illness, Preventative medicine on Mar 3rd, 2010
I almost hate saying it, but I am surprised I am not hacking up a lung. Usually when I go away — and definitely after spending an afternoon in a kids’ ER — I get a cold. It’s been 48 hours now, and I am sniffle-free, but we’ll see what the week brings. I thought [...]
Keira got a fever on Saturday. We never would have known aside from the fact that she felt like a hot water bottle when we picked her up. We took her temperature. 104.2 degrees. Wow. We called the doctor. Did she have any other symptoms, the doctor wanted to know. Coughing? Sneezing? Boogie nose? Nope. [...]
Posted in Health, Illness, Preventative medicine on Sep 22nd, 2009
It came to me in a rather unique way. I was co-chairing ASJA’s Personal Pitch program — one of the events at our annual writer’s conference — a few years ago. We put out feelers to PR folks asking them for 100 or so giveaways for the editor gift bags we were putting together. One [...]