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Acupuncture, Eastern Medicine and Your Health

Can’t Stand the Heat?

In Chinese medicine, there is a condition called Summerheat. It seems appropriate to write about it after we’ve had a string of 90 degree days here in Minnesota in late May and early June. I’ve only experienced Summerheat once, but it was memorable. It happened during my first backpacking trip down into the Grand Canyon […]

Day Tripping: Ten Ways to Avoid Falls

Over the past couple of years, I’ve discovered a new Murphy’s Law. It’s this: The older you are, the worse the outcome tends to be when you fall. Three years ago, I slipped on a patch of snow-dusted ice and broke my elbow. And three weeks ago, I stepped out the front door and fell. […]

Don’t Throw My Groceries

Not long ago, during a weekly grocery shopping trip, I had a weird thing happen. At the end of the trip in the checkout line, the cashier tossed my groceries toward me as I bagged. Sack of onions; scan, toss, plop. Head of lettuce; scan, toss, plop. Bag of slivered almonds; scan, toss, plop. And […]

Your Connection to Nature

I grew up in New England, on a bluff overlooking the Connecticut River. We lived in a quiet town with a village green, a local dairy around the corner, and houses lining Main Street that were built in the mid 1700’s. Unlike the deep snows that blanket Vermont in the winter, we lived farther south, […]