Donna Powers

Today’s note is a quick reminder about the upcoming free teleconference call on the flu and how to use homeopathy to: Prevent – What is the difference between seasonal homeopathic Influenzinum and Oscillococcinum? Help Heal – How do you know which remedies to use? Hope you can join us for the call on Wednesday, September … Read more

Good If you are an ‘in case of’ kind of person, then welcome to the first once-a-month featured flu remedy. By subscribing to my weekly newsletter, you will have knowledge of four must-know homeopathic flu remedies by the end of this year. Better And, if you join us for a free introductory teleconference call on … Read more

30 YEARS AGO Parenthood and sick kids…nothing can prepare anyone for the job! Exhilaration and exhaustion, and usually, both at the same time and for extended periods of time! Then add to the mix an insatiable curiosity to figure out why the croup, the cough, the ear infections, and soon, the exploration of the vaccine … Read more

Before you read any further, what would you say are the top ten reasons for visiting a hospital emergency room? SURVEY SAYS… There’s a little game we play in our household called ‘Survey Says.’ The name of course is ripped off from the game show on TV, but we tend to have a good amount … Read more

Warning: Today’s Post You may need to get your favorite beverage and set aside some time to plough through today’s newsletter. I have probably broken every rule for blog writing re: word count, sentence length, content, reading level, and the amount of time it will take to read through the information, etc., etc…. But if … Read more

Maybe you are as surprised as I am that it is already almost the middle of August! The summer in Calgary has been very wet and, most recently, quite cool. Despite the weather challenges, many of us are enjoying the longer days of light and reluctant to admit that September is only 2 ½ weeks … Read more

Maybe you can guess by the subject line who my overnight guest might be? And after a bedtime story of “The Stinky Cheese Man” (The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Scieszka), can you guess what the theme of lights out was all about? Toots! If you have a four-year-old yourself … Read more

Who are your personal heroes these days? Stop and consider before you read any further. List the top five that are first in your mind. Go ahead. Maybe you have 10, 20, or even more. Please feel free to share them. There are so many heroes for me lately with the whole world available at … Read more

“The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.”             ~ Pico Iyer Twice in the last week, at the beginning of my annual summer visit with my folks, I was advised, in the gentlest and most encouraging way, to “unplug” from technology and work. Both people used … Read more