Bring in the New: How to Protect Your Bones & Breasts at Any Age

  Note: This blog is about how to protect women’s health in light of contraception. If you are a man reading it, there are some key take-away points for your own life and actions. Three major studies A tidal wave happened in women’s health in 2002. The Women’s Health Initiative, an NIH study on the…

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Finding Space for Yes

YES has been harder to find than NO lately. News in recent weeks in North America hasn’t promised fresh hope for the immediate support by this new administration of democracy and diversity. Instead, NO has become an essential and much used word by citizens and neighboring countries alike. “Mexico says no to Trump’s new deportation…

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LADY LIBERTY . . . AND BEET SOUP

The new year was only a few weeks old when I walked into a fresh local Mexican restaurant for a quick enchilada before I got back to work. Late in the lunch hour, the first person I laid eyes on as I walked in the door kind of astounded me. It was Lady Liberty! How…

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LIFE CHANGES

I’m here to write about women’s health. Yet first I’ve got to state, what is happening in the US in the last few weeks feels like an invasion from within. It is shocking. Yet we Americans are not alone in this. Millions of people across the planet are suffering dramatic changes of a similar nature…

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MOBILIZING OUR SENSES FOR HEALING

Our country is melting down. The planet is on fire with change. When I first wrote this, it was Independence Day, a new moon, July 4, 2016. The latest killings had not yet happened. I was looking into the past to 1855 when the Republican Party was first formed, to support what its members saw…

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SHOWING UP

A close friend of the family has a knack with certain humans and also birds. Before she discovered her passion for birds, she wandered Central America and landed in the Pacific Northwest for a time. While in the damp northwest, she snagged a job at an upscale retirement home. Her popularity steadily rose amongst the…

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CLEAR AND BRIGHT

Happy solstice! May it be a clear and bright one for you. The blog’s on line for December 26 – join us!    

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