Weeds of the Westby the Western Society of Weed Science (Whitson, Burrill, Dewey, Cudney, Nelson, Lee, Parker) This is one of my favorite field guides because it covers plants that don’t have showy flowers and are considered noxious weeds.  It is ...

Medicinal Plants of the Worldby Ben-Erik van Wyk and Michael Wink A beautiful book and the latest edition to my collection, Medicinal Plants of the World is a hardcover book with beautiful color photos of over 320 medicinal plants found throughout...

I want everyone I know to read this book. Even though it's a work of fiction, what it talks about could very well happen.  The book is sobering to me because I have had two waking visions of the future this book forshadows and have pondered the im...

As children, when someone gave us something and then took it away, we called them an "Indian giver."  However, a study of history shows we really should have called them a "white giver" as our culture has been far less likely to keep its word than...

Many years ago I learned the concept of "emotional bank accounts" from Stephen R. Covey.  The idea is that whenever someone does something that makes us feel cared for (which involves fulfilling our deepest physical and emotional needs) they make ...

The subtitle of this book helps you understand what it's about: "Turning Revolving Door Romance into Lasting Love."  This book is really about maturity in relationships.  It explains that there are three types of romantic relationships, buyers, re...

There are books that I "skim read" just catching the highlights and that I "devour" because they are just so interesting.  But, the books that I love the most are the ones that I read a few pages and what I learn is so profound that I have to put ...

Matthew Wood is one of my favorite herbalists and he has recently published two great new books, The Earthwise Herbal: A Complete Guide to New World Medicinal Plants and The Earthwise Herbal: A Complete Guide to Old World Medicinal Plants. These n...

For a long time I've recognized that people can get pretty fanatical about diet. In fact, people can get so fanatical about eating healthy that it becomes unhealthy.  Health is about balance in our lives and part of that balance is being happy and...