When I walk outside right now the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, and my cherry tomatoes are overflowing! It’s time to learn how to make sun dried tomatoes!

Like many of us, I have a love/hate relationship with my period.

Using a Diva Cup solves most of my menstrual annoyances from my life.

But periods CAN still be annoying, including coming early sometimes and late at other times.

I once planned to use parsley to induce menstruation. Here’s the step-by-step information, process, and results.

It came time to buy some extra Christmas decorations this year, and I hesitated. Maybe more cheap, plastic crap isn’t what the world needs right now? Maybe the abused workers and toxic environment of Yiwa, China aren’t worth a few decorations in my home?

Dylan and I started brainstorming about ways to decorate without buying plastic things. We recently cut down a few teetering pine trees. Perhaps I could make garland from their branches? We have all kinds of materials lying around to make homemade ornaments, from paper to wood to old toys.

I went looking for winter crafts using natural materials gathered from outside. I found a few to share with you!

I keep seeing it: TOP 100 Tweets About Parenting This Week. I read them, and they are hilarious!

But there’s always this tickle of doubt in my mind.

If I knew that these parents were truly, deeply respectful of their kids day in and day out…

…And I knew that their tweets only reached the minds of other people who truly, deeply cared about kids…

…Then I could laugh along with them. It’s ok to be exasperated at people you love and to make hyperbolic jabs in good fun as long as it takes place in the context of a healthy, respectful relationship.

But I know good and well that most parents don’t respect their kids much at all, and most of their audience doesn’t either.

It’s been 4 years since the keto diet cured my back pain. Then it went ahead and cured my sleep habits, my migraines, my reflux, my plantar fasciitis, my menstrual cycle, and my depression. Suffice it to say, keto changed my life.

I’ve written a keto quick start guide that is the least you need to know to get started eating keto. If you just want to jump right in and get started without a lot of extra details this keto quick start guide is for you. Additionally, at the end I’ve included a troubleshooting checklist for if you have any problems along the way.