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How I’m Healing: Everyday Support for Chronic Illness

Illustrated with pictures Lu took this August in Michigan Having never walked the path of chronic illness before, I’m learning so much in such a short amount of time about illness, about healing,...

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3 Ways Toward Recovery from Chronic Illness

(Illustrated w/ works from Lu’s Romanian series Martisor) It’s been a while, dear reader. I’ve taken a step back from the work I’ve been doing here to focus on the work of recovery; what the Oxford...

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Violet Leaf Infusion + an Individualized Approach to Healing

Herbal medicine to me is individualized medicine.  Medicine formulated specifically for you, medicine that sees you, all of you–all that’s whole, all that’s fractured–, that meets you, all of you,...

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Drawing Plants into Yr Circle: What I Learned at Herb Pharm

Illustrated w/ photos Lu took while we were in Leelanau, MI for Jonkinsfest 2017. It’s been a while, dear reader. In March I left Geneva for the Pacific North-West to spend 10 Spring weeks living and...

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Chicken Thighs for Grandma Stella, or What Comfort Food Means to Me

(Featuring my friend Marcos’s hand) Every year as Samhain approaches I get to thinking about my ancestors, specifically my grandma Stella, with whom I was really close; all the ways in which, even...

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Kitchen Medicine: Letting Go of Old Maxims, Cooking Intuitively

(Photo from Lucas Olivet’s “Wentworth” series) I’ve been thinking a lot about medicine lately, the multifarious forms it can take. There’s plant medicine which, in itself, contains legions: the...

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Mysterious Illness, Magical Thinking

(Photo from Lucas Olivet’s ongoing series in Prince George, BC) If you’ve been following along for a while you know that, a few years back, I was diagnosed with chronic Lyme. This diagnosis, at the...

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Sardines 4 Breakfast and Anti-Smoothisms

While sitting outside on our tiny terrace the other day polishing off my breakfast of potato salad and oily sardines in the late morning sun, I got to thinking about the first meal of the day and how...

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Sour Pickle Spectrum

It’s my belief that most things in life–health, sexuality, political ideology, spiritual inclination–can be found not within binary but somewhere along a spectrum, even things as seemingly simple as,...

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Meat Monday: Kibbeh Bil Sanieh + Nostalgic Food

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about nostalgic food, what it means when we eat something that’s linked to a cultural experience, a specific place or person. There’s this study that was conducted...

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