by Nicole Platte | Environmental
Everything in Walmart smells the same because the factory makes sure they do This apparent uniformity is something shoppers are used to. Maybe it makes us buy more. I shop at a lot of resale establishments to avoid some of that chemical overload That sounds like a...
by Nicole Platte | Healing
“It has to get worse to get better,” That’s what my mom always used to say, whether it was a room or just a closet she was cleaning. That’s because you’re moving old things around. Dusty things, maybe moldy or rotten things (think: back...
by Nicole Platte | Alternative health
I called into a radio show on NPR I was in my 20’s; my whole purpose to drop a reference to homeopathy (I’d been dabbling in it for a while) on some guest scientists (the show was the now-defunct Odyssey, hosted by Gretchen Helfrich.) I have no idea what...
