Like many folks, I took health and well-being for granted in my younger years, and being raised in the middle-class American Midwest, I took many “modern necessities” for granted, as well; frozen dinners, soda pop, all manner of automated gadgetry to make life ostensibly either easier or more convenient. As it turns out, a lot [...]
These are the questions that first came to mind when wondering about MCS and how it affected Peter’s life. If you have additional questions you’d like me to ask him, I bet he’d be happy to expand on the information here. He relays many personal experiences here, and and gives good advice. In an upcoming [...]
Good morning, everyone. It seems many of my readers (and many of the bloggers I follow) are increasingly concerned with reducing the amount of chemicals in their lives. This gave me the idea of interviewing my friend, Peter Haynes, who has Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS,) a severe reaction to chemicals in his environment that may [...]
This morning I woke up with a decimated throat, a valve in my nose stuck in the “full on” position and joints feeling twice their age. It’s a Sick Day. This gives me opportunity to stay in bed, knit, catch up on email and Reader sites, and make a blog entry or two in between [...]
This word appears more and more frequently across the hundreds of blogs of which I try to keep abreast. There seems to be quite a groundswelling of people who have Had It with the thousands of tedious details which ostensibly comprise being a part of modern life. I’m one of them. Screw it, man – [...]