Our Children Are Watching! A dear friend of mine recently helped her family celebrate her parents’ 50th wedding anniversary. She asked me to help her translate her speech into Spanish that her parents might fully understand what their marriage means to her and her siblings. I cried as I translated her beautiful words. Why? For many reasons, one is because my own parents were denied that milestone. Another is because I am a sucker for love stories, but most of all because I tr

GOU QI ZI. The Berry That Clears Your Vision...And Much More. “I can’t drive at night anymore, doc, “ he complained. “and I have a kid going to college soon. I need to keep on working. Can you help me?” Poor vision for anyone is a problem, but for a driver is also a liability. After several questions and a thorough examination, I concluded that his problem was related to a liver disorder and natural aging. Although, still relatively young at 52, the body had began to undergo

SELF-SUFFICIENCY, SELF- RELIANCE, SELF- DETERMINATION. ALL SOUND GOOD TO ME. I come from a family of seven kids. We inherited several traits from our parents, as most people do. From our father, we all inherited his knack for Math, his love of learning, a skill for different styles of art, painting, drawing, sculpting, music, writing, decorating, singing, you name it, every one of us has chosen one or more of those styles to pursue, and especially an appreciation for a good s

Sometimes We Have to Learn the Hard Way. “ Is someone smoking pot here?” She asked in disbelief. This relative of mine had come for acupuncture treatment at the school clinic where I was finishing my training as a Traditional Chinese doctor. With a smile, I put her at ease. Never smoking marijuana myself, I have never related the bitter, acrid smell of Mugwort, when burned, with pot. But in those four years of training I had witnessed my relative’s reaction from other patient

Do you ever feel like you, or someone you know, are out of synch with their present circumstances? If you are married, you look upon your years when you were single and feel life was simpler then. If you are single, you look at your married sisters with longing, and wonder why you can’t be so blessed? If you have children, begrudge the lack of time and freedom, and if you are childless curse heaven for not granting you the one thing you have been asking for. This week, after