When my daughter Ciel was just four or five years old, we lived in a little, decrepit cottage backed up into a hillside. Ciel slept in the room in the back of the house, but during our first night there she woke up crying from nightmares. “I’m scared in here!” she wailed. “I don’t want…
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A slow drizzle drips outside my window as I write this – a common occurrence in this part of the world – and I find my spirits darkening with the color of the sky. Looks like it’s time to reach for the lavender essential oil. Lavender (Lavendula angustifolia) is just one in a happy group of…
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