Dear Eau Claire,

I’m afraid we’ve started off on the wrong foot. I’m not sure how this started, but I think it had something to do with you antagonizing me by burying my car under a foot of snow immediately upon my arrival, when I was still living in a hotel without so much as an ice scraper. For [...]

Those of you who know me are aware of my obsession with interest in martial arts. The advent of things like facebook and twitter has made it increasingly difficult for me to compartmentalize my life into different categories. Which reminds me of some lines from a Diane DiPrima poem:

“there is no part of yourself you [...]

This post is part of an herbal blog party hosted by Karen at Acupuncture Brooklyn.

Tucson winters are very mild, so I haven’t really had to spend much energy emerging from them in the past seven years. This in contrast to Wisconsin winters that seem to never end. However, one of my farmers told me a [...]

This about wraps up the series on sleep, though I did want to answer a final question. A reader asks, “Should I eat any carbs or protein at night? Can I eat before bedtime at all?”

This is a kind of a complicated question. If you eat a lot of food, it increases insulin, which can block growth hormone [...]