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,...
View Article3 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...
View ArticleViolet 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,...
View ArticleDrawing 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...
View ArticleChicken 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...
View ArticleKitchen 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...
View ArticleMysterious 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...
View ArticleSardines 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...
View ArticleSour 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,...
View ArticleMeat 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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