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pardon me if you live in the southern hemisphere
here in boston it is cold, snowy, icy, and dark. well, it’s not dark just now…and in 5 hours it will be. yesterday was winter solstice, and the sun is currently as far south as it will be for a whole ‘nother year. that makes for some [...]

psst…
well i got a secret but can i keep it
i better cross my heart and hope to die
—stacey earle
not a happy secret, i’m sorry to say. and unlike the general theory of secrets (yours are mostly forgotten, never revealed; mine simply the latter), this one has a half life of a couple weeks at most. [...]

I ain’t no doctor
a weekly column by charles faris, hhc
Oh most humble and sometimes pressed for time non-doc;
I know you are spending the week studying with your main yogi John Friend, so I thought I would ask you a simple question: how the heck am I supposed to get enough greens into my diet? I [...]

I ain’t no doctor
a weekly column by charles faris, hhc
Last week I began looking at a question from Massachusetts Sugar Fiend, who claimed to be “plagued by the desire to eat sweets; breakfast, lunch and dinner, morning, noon and night”, and wanted to know “what foods are good alternatives to satisfy my sugar craving?” We [...]

I Ain’t No Doctor
a weekly health column by charles faris, hhc
Dear Chas,
I’m afraid of conventional food, yet i don’t have the scratch necessary to buy all organic. What can i do? Eating is becoming very difficult for me.
—Chicken Little
Dear Chicken,
Thanks for your question, which in one variation or another is on many a mind these [...]

so it all started with a jar of nuts. raw cashews. love ‘em. too much maybe. leaned on ‘em when times were tough and now they always seem to be answer numero uno. as in:
i’m feeling a little hungry (grab that jar of nuts!)
i’m bored  (grab those nuts!)
oh, look at that pile of important papers [...]