A few weeks ago I was in the ladies room in a San Francisco hotel during a seminar and overheard a woman passionately testifying about an acne product that had changed her life. I eyed her closely: smooth attractive skin, not a blemish to be seen. Yet, she claimed she had suffered from terrible acne […]
Recipes
Healthy Easy Snacks for picky toddlers, kids, and adults, too
What do you do when a kid won’t eat vegetables? A neighbor’s child, Stacy (not her real name), was over to play the other day. I knew Stacy refused to eat most vegetables as her mother had just asked me for some ideas about how to resolve this. When snack time came around, the little […]
Glorious One-Pot Lobster Tail Recipe
Our local grocery chain had a special for Valentine’s Day: 4-oz lobster tails for $4.99 each. I jumped on them and decided to toss them into a Glorious One-Pot Meal. It was so delicious, I decided to call the recipe Downeaster Lobster Tails, because it reminded me of the campus-wide lobsterbakes of my college days […]
Non-toxic Body Lotion
I’ve been on a search for a good, moisturizing, non-toxic body lotion ever since the Environmental Working Group announced that my old stand-by lotion contained elements that react to make a toxic compounds. For years I’ve counted on Alba Botanica Very Emollient Body Lotion as a safe and natural moisturizer. It’s so dry living in […]
Sweet Tart Chicken
I demonstrated my Sweet Tart Chicken recipe during the book launch party at the Tattered Cover Bookstore in Highlands Ranch on Saturday. It’s a recipe that has everything I want out of a one-pot meal — quick, easy, delicious, and nutritious — and it contains one of my current addictions: pomegranate molasses. Yum! I wished […]
