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by Donna Powers
From My Garden to Yours
Spring – the promise of new beginnings, earth warming, and the awaiting of the first rain. Air infused with the smell of rain and damp soil…aaahhhh. If I could sing like the robins, I would! Loudly! In this part of the world, spring has arrived three weeks early. Let’s hope Mother Nature keeps up remarkable … Read more
Soccer To Me!
Spring has arrived in Calgary at least 3-4 weeks early! Temperatures are anywhere from spring-like to almost-summer. Dry as the desert with the west winds coming off the mountains and from the north, a chill. So it is still a little brisk in the morning but you can hear the robins singing their little … Read more
Sneezy, Wheezy Springtime Woes
It’s April! Inhale a deep breath of sap flowing, buds bursting, the smell of dirt and warming soil. It’s spring – finally! The season of joy and life and renewal! Right? Ennhhh…wrong… Especially if that first whiff of spring brings on your symptoms of weepy/watery eyes, a burning, sneezing watery nose, a sore throat, and … Read more
Shout-Out to Thinking Moms’ Revolution
Today’s newsletter is all about celebrating a book and a movement called The Thinking Moms’ Revolution. To the women (and one man) who are TMR: You are courageous, brilliant, articulate, honest, funny, passionate, heartbreakingly honest, compassionate, and righteously angry, and boy, do you ever challenge everyone to think about autism in a new way! … Read more
Getting Down and Dirty: Composting the Easy Way
From the Home Files I would like to introduce you to a couple of Homeopathy First Magazine contributors who just happen to be my parents, Gord and Betty Sanguin. Be sure check out the links at the end of the newsletter to get a sneak peek of their magazine articles! Both are in their 80’s … Read more
Issue 4 of Homeopathy First Magazine: REAWAKENING
ANNOUNCEMENT Issue 4 of Homeopathy First Magazine: REAWAKENING is available! http://homeopathyfirstmagazine.com/subscribe/ With above seasonal temperatures in the foothills of the Rockies this year, life is reawakening prematurely. There are tulip and daffodil bulbs 2-3 inches high on the south side of houses and buildings, fuzzy gray aspen tree buds breaking out of their pods, green … Read more
Guest Writer Dr. Roland H. Guenther
What’s in a homeopathic remedy? Today’s guest writer is colleague Dr. Roland Guenther explaining the ‘nothing in a homeopathic remedy’. Maybe you read the news story too? Maybe a friend or family member came to you with the story knowing you use homeopathy? And you weren’t sure what to say to them? Here is one … Read more
Frankenstein Flu with a Side of Sore Throat
Three years post graduation for me, I started up an ‘e-zine’ (that is what they were called back in the ‘old days’ just a decade and a half ago!). For many reasons, I stopped writing. Seems some of us need a few tries before we find our purpose! With a recent outbreak of sore throats … Read more
What is the #1 Reason for a Hospital ER Visit?
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
