by Michelle Lasley | Feb 11, 2020 | Family, Food, Health, In the Home, One a Day, Outside the Home, Post a Day 2020, The Balancing Act, The Green Life
Food fads are a thing. Every year, it seems, we learn about something else we should or shouldn’t do or eat for so-called optimal health. Milk is in until it isn’t. Alternate kinds of milk are in until they aren’t. We can eat based on our blood types. We can use ancient traditions. We can even get into gastro-molecular inventions (what!?).
by Michelle Lasley | Feb 3, 2020 | One a Day, Podcast, The Balancing Act, The Green Life
Introduction to Episode How do you celebrate Imbolc? First, what is it? Second, how did it come about? In this bonus episode, Michelle briefly talks about the history and what we can learn from this first spring holiday. Podcast Episode Summary Happy Imbolc! In...
by Michelle Lasley | Nov 15, 2019 | Health, In the Home, One a Day, Post a Day 2019, The Balancing Act, The Green Life
Did you know that vinegar is a natural way to clean your home without using any toxic chemicals? It is! 11 years ago, I found this list of 29 ways to use vinegar at home for a tabling event hosted by the library. It was called “Keep Portland Weird”. And,...
by Michelle Lasley | May 27, 2019 | Health, In the Home, One a Day, Post a Day 2019, The Balancing Act, The Green Life
In the beginning, we had an ant problem Do you have an ant problem? We do. And, over the last 16 years of living here, I have only found one solution to work: homemade borax ant poison. Living here in the Portland Metro area, someone once told me a section of town,...
by Michelle Lasley | Nov 5, 2018 | Family, Health, Motherhood, One a Day, Post a Day 2018, The Balancing Act, The Green Life
Encased in chemicals. Endocrine disrupting chemicals. That is your kids’ pajamas. And, if you are my age, my pajamas as a kid too. I don’t often truly understand the Chemical Life we live. How those 80,000 approved chemicals truly affect my – our...
by Michelle Lasley | Jul 25, 2018 | Health, Post a Day 2018, The Balancing Act, The Green Life
Sunday, my friend Marjan and I held a class in her home. The topic: astrology, essential oils, and minerals. Let’s back up a little bit… I have been interested in astrology pretty much my whole life. Knowing my sun sign is in Pisces, I’ve read,...
