“Oh My Gawd!” [In my best Valley Girl voice.]  It has been more than a year since my last post.  I suppose my excuse, like everyone, is life gets busy…  My writing fell off the table. New Home in St. Francis Last May, I purchased a house in St. Francis, Wisconsin (half-mile from the lakefront, just south of Milwaukee) and dove into the move and getting settled.  Home projects ensued, which never seem to get completed as fast nor as easily as hoped.  Read More

In Part One I explained how as a teenager I began to develop a pragmatic approach to personal health.  I embraced trial and error, exploring, researching, and refining personal well-being and what works for me.  Often this meant quietly pushing aside peer or societal pressures and medical norms.  Over the decades, I continued seeking out pragmatic health tools that best fit me. Until the past year, I still looked first for help from the U.S. “sick” care system, which repeatedly failed to help me during Covid and Long-Covid.  Read More