Amelia’s Recycling Project

Happy birthday to Amelia, a regular patient of mine who has been coming in since 1992. She’s now seventy. You could say I have gotten to know her (and her husband, daughters, and grandkids, too) pretty well. She likes to sew. She’s been making the cutest heating pads out of fabric scraps, which she fills with rice and star anise. We sell them here in our office, so we...

Un-Bag It for your Health

Why does everything we bring home have to come in a bag or some plastic wrap? It turns out, a lot of plastic is not recyclable, even if it does have a little number in a triangle on the bottom. And it’s bad for us. How is that, you say? In the documentary, Bag It, you’ll find out. I watched the movie Friday night at the Packing House in...