July is national women’s health awareness month. Breast cancer is a major women’s health concern worth talking about, so here goes: Two of my friends have become aware of breast lumps after an injury to their breasts. I encouraged both of them to get mammograms and both of them ended up being positive for breast

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I am back from a trip to the Southwestern US.  My husband and I drove to Santa Fe New Mexico and visited our friends there in their new hand-built, sustainable home powered by solar panels.  We camped in the mountains for a week and taught workshops on plant identification for food and medicine at a

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