NTxWriter

58, Female - Eons member since Aug 02, 2008

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Hometown

Places I've been

Since I was in the Military, I've lived and traveled to many places. I lived in: Rota, Spain and Athens, Greece for 2 years each Virginia for 3 years Jacksonville, Fla 4 years Baltimore Maryland 2 years Corpus Christi, Tx 6 years San Diego, CA 3 years Other places I've traveled to include all up and down the east and west coasts. I love Washington, DC and Williamsburg, VA as places to visit.

Education

Rogue River High School - 1965 to 1969
Southern Oregon University - 1978 to 1982

Military

US Navy Hospital Corpsman - 1965 to 1969
US Navy - 1982 to 1984
Division: Hospital Corpsman
Rank: E-6

More about me

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My newest project is a knitting blog about life in Texas, which I started just for fun.

http://www.SpinningAlpacayarns.com

Here's a link to my other two passions,

My health & wellness website.

My Cooking and Food blog

My journey to better health started about 15 years ago but my love of of eco-living really started when I was a kid. Living a more natural lifestyle is all the rage right now but I grew up that way. When I was young, "back in the olden days" nobody ever talked about eco-living - they lived it because there was really no other way.

I'm telling on my age here, but I grew up in the Beaver Cleaver world of the 50's. We lived on a small family farm where we raised our own cows, pigs and chickens. We drank fresh milk and ate fresh eggs, provided courtesy of the animals we raised.

My mom had a huge vegetable garden, not as a hobby, but to feed us. As kids we helped her plant, hoe and water. The plants were fertilized with composted manure from the animals and all of our table scraps went into a compost pile.

My mom was a city girl in her youth, til she married my dad, an Iowa farmer and ex-Marine. She worked from dawn to dusk, making our clothes, growing our food and then preserving it. Along with her, the kids gathered eggs and sold them to the neighbors. I raised rabbits to sell but then got too attached to sell them for food- a trait I retain to this day, something my farmer ancestors would laugh at.

As the oldest I helped my mom hang laundry on the clothes line outdoors (whoever got their laundry up first and had the whitest sheets in the neighborhood "won"). We fed and milked cows right along with my dad. There was no inequality of pay in our family. My mom and dad both worked for the common goal of feeding our family.

As kids we got to run free around our rural neighborhood.We spent our days at the creek or on the mountain behind our house. Nobody ever thought we'd get stolen and we needed no cell phones to keep in touch. We showed up for meals and the rest of the time we were off being kids.

I didn't have to wear that many hand-me-downs of the clothes my mom made but only because I was the oldest. My two sisters wore my old clothes though. We got a couple new outfits when school started and a fancier one - with black patent leather shoes - at Easter.

At Christmas we got clothes and ONE toy that we most especially wanted. We spent weeks scouring the Sears & Roebuck catalog for the perfect thing to ask for. Nobody had heard of designer clothes and NOBODY ever suspected that kids could also be consumers.

For fun my parents used to take us to the A&W Root Beer stand for a root beer float and once in a great while, not often, we went out to eat. We'd have thought Thai food was from Mars back then. The rest of our meals were all home cooked and mostly home raised, as well. Nothing we ate came from a package and we'd never heard of "processed" food.

We had no toxins in our air and water, no chemicals or pesticides on our food. We controlled everything we put into our bodies back then.

Over the years, I got away from green living and about 15 years ago I was overweight, depressed and had constant health problems such as digestive upsets, colds and bronchitis, and just generally felt tired and run down. I'd spent my adult life up until then working in conventional medicine which taught me to find a pill for every malady that struck.

There came a time tho, when I started to see that this approach wasn't working. Not only for myself but for my husband and daughter, I started looking for ways to improve our health, making changes I could stick with.

I loved to cook so I research healthy recipes for our family. We switched to a mostly organic diet and I started using natural remedies for health issues that came up, rather than popping some over the counter drug. I started walking every day with my dog. Once my walking buddy got into this habit, she never let me skip a day!

I learned a lot along the way, discovering healthy products that supported my new lifestyle. I was so impressed with some of them that I started my own business teaching people how to live a healthier, happier life.

Let's face it, no matter how wonderful your life is in other areas, if you aren't healthy, it affects everything else. If you are healthy, you can take on the world and come out on top.

I truly think that as much as 90% of our health and how we age is within our own control due to our lifestyle choices. My goal is to empower people to take control of their health and well-being to live longer, happier lives.

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