Oatmeal Day
Last Friday was Oatmeal Day. (And since Saturday was “Be Late for Something Day”, I’m following suggestions.) Call me weird, but I grew up eating oatmeal in the winter and still like it. Hot, a little brown sugar & milk...
Herbal Tip of the Month – September 2009
I can’t turn my television onto any channel these days without hearing about the H1N1 virus pandemic (the so-called “swine flu”). A lot of people I know are all twitterpated about this and I gotta tell you, it’s getting on...
Fall’s A’Comin’!
Y’know, I swear Fall comes earlier every year. Admittedly, we’ve had a really cool summer (at least for Georgia) but as I look out the window (and listen to the thunder of the storm rolling by), I see that the dogwoods are already...
Interesting Things Found in Research
I’m in the beginning stages of research for my second book and, although I know I’ll never know everything about herbs, I came across an interesting snippet of contradictory information. It’s not that I’ve never seen...
Cranberry & Urinary Tract Infections
I subscribe to the American Herbalists’ Guild daily email of herbal abstracts from PubMed and one this morning caught my eye. The abstract is from the journal “Drugs” and states at the end “However, in light of the...
Herbal Tip of the Month – August 2009
I’ve been spending a lot of time on the ‘Net recently and I came across a story on Herb Companion’s blog about many states and municipalities rushing to outlaw “Salvia”. What they’re concerned about is Salvia...