…many of you are too young to remember that line from a weekly skit on the Flip Wilson show. Many of you are probably too young to even know who Flip Wilson was! A funny guy, Flip had a sketch on his TV variety show in which he would dress up as a …
It’s raining in Dallas, so perhaps that is why I’m blogging about water……or it may be that was the topic of some discussion on the “Natural Living and Garden Show with Ron and Mona Hall” Sunday, October 31st.Mona (sans Ron) asked me to be a guest o…
Many of you may remember the study, done some time ago, comparing the incidence of breast cancer among Japanese and American women.The study made the link between the amount of dietary fat in the two cultures, concluding that fat in the diet was the c…
“The banya is like the Russian’s second mother”, wrote Pushkin in 1832. Though it may sound like hyperbole, the banya has been a staple of Russian culture and health since medieval times. Every village had at least one banya, serving not only as a ce…
The word sauna is an ancient Finnish word which means the traditional Finnish bath as well as the bathhouse itself. The oldest known saunas were pits dug into a slope or hill in the ground and used as homes during the winter. The Finns used the sauna…
