Reliable and Consistent

I wrote this editorial piece for publication when my father was alive and I was a reporter at The East Hampton Star. He carried it with him in his wallet.

Veterans Day Matters

Veterans Day honors all who have served and still do serve our country. It falls between Halloween and Thanksgiving. Please don't let it fall between the cracks in corporate media. My father, Gaspar Salvi, joined the Army at 17. My father volunteered for the ArmyGrandpa Vincenzo SalviGrandpa Malcolm McPhersonMy dad in KoreaAunt Rose supported the …

Questioning

https://videopress.com/v/LD79wWyo?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&autoPlay=true&preloadContent=metadata Lou Dobbs and Tom Fitton question too Tucker Carlson questions Journalists question

Remembering 9-11

I lived 30 minutes from Ground Zero and I was a military wife on 9-11. In paperback at Barnes and Noble and Lulu.com I wrote my personal story about that day and the aftermath in my memoir Love And War In The Hamptons. But the truth is the aftermath continues frequently and silently with PTSD, …

My Pandemic Tool Box

You see, my holistic health care plan is already designed to support the body's own immune system. I will modify it with additional vitamin C, anti-viral herbs, and immune boosting teas and foods, along with a mask.

Hanging With Harvey: A Day in My Life

As we drove over his Sag Harbor bridge, I told Harvey about Jordan Haerter. Then, at the traffic circle I told him about Joey Theinert, pointing to Shelter Island, where a ferry is named for him. I poured my heart out about my memoir, my ex and my father. I told him how it was so hard to live in the Hamptons where people seem to have no idea we are at war. I told him how I cut a lot out of my memoirs.

Getting It Off My Chest

"We all have stories--ongoing and ever-changing--that we tell ourselves to make sense of our lives. They can help us heal and powerfully guide us through life, or just as powerfully, hold us back," Judith Fertig

Digging deep

I was like a kid in the sandbox. On my hands and knees pulling any crab-grassy, thorny, prickly growths from my new garden beds and pathways. Despite my appreciation for the beauty of some weeds and respect for their purposes, it felt so good to remove things that had the potential to hurt me during …

Cannabis and Kids, it’s No Fairytale

But it has a happy ending.  The medicinal plant is saving thousands of lives, and harming none.  In fact. There are many side benefits... Here's my latest article for Green Flower Media. 

Cannabis Please for Parkinson’s Disease

I wrote this article last week for Green Flower Media, but mostly I wrote it for my mother. She suffers from the symptoms of Parkinson's disease. The article also links to a story I wrote about my own journey toward the medicinal weed for breast cancer. https://www.learngreenflower.com/articles/331/cannabis-please-for-parkinson-s-disease Decades of negative stigma and false information about the …

Just ONE thing

I was back in New York for the holidays, reminiscing with family over vintage photos and Christmas Cream, a decadent adult treat bottled and gifted annually by family friends, when I recalled a conversation I had earlier with my niece about chia seeds.  "That's my one thing I do to prevent cancer," she said. I …

The Marijuana Plant Saved Charlotte, and Many Others

An excerpt from an article I wrote for the Institute for Natural Healing... Five-year old Charlotte Figi had a genetic disorder called Dravet syndrome, she had hundreds of seizures a week. That was three years ago. Charlotte’s parents began a hospice program because she was starving to death. Their daughter was barely able to swallow water. Faced …

What Would Hippocrates Do?

"Think before other people think for you," Brian Clement went on, calling the modern medical system a "con job" where people are given pharmaceutical remedies that create bigger problems in most cases.

Veterans Day Thoughts From a Former Military Wife

But everything changed that day when I watched on my East End television set as bombs were shot off like fireworks, and he came home with talk of Iraq and anthrax vaccines. I was opposed to the series of six toxic injections, and the war, yeah that too.  My opinion didn't matter. In fact, while I watched images of world wide protests on satellite TV I was told that I was not allowed to express my opposition publicly, because I was an "officer's wife." This post is not meant to be a pity party for me, although those years did take a toll. I am writing about this subject because I want to share what I know to be true about those who serve, and to remind everyone that service includes the family. I enjoyed a video about parenting challenges shared on Facebook the other night titled "People with no kids don't know." Today, on Veterans Day, while sympathetic to the challenges of leaving the house with a child who prefers to stay home shoeless, I think there are many more people who don't know the extent of the experiences of many Veterans. I am truly grateful that I experienced military life. I would have never known the motivation, stamina, professionalism, responsibility, and brotherhood that resides there.