Health is a precious gift we easily take for granted until we lose it. Then depending on how badly we lose it, it takes center stage in all our thoughts and efforts to reclaim it.

I guess it has been those times of loss that birthed my keen interest in how to understand that precious gift and nurture it. I remember musing over how our culture hands over responsibility for education to schools and teachers and health to doctors and drug companies and coming to a decision that I wouldn't do that because I knew they couldn't possibly care as much about those aspects of my life as I did.

So, for the past quarter of a century, I've been learning and observing and have discovered some things that work very well for me - things that have saved me lots of money in down-time and I bet there are others out there who also could share things that have worked for them.

Right now I've been fighting some icky bug and a basic ingredient in my arsenal is Capsicum and Garlic. Red Delicious apples are ideal mediums to carry a slathering of peanut butter mixed with a clove or two or three if they're small and several shakes of Capsicum. You may need to start with one shake and work up to more but the peanut butter does an awesome job of quenching the flames of that firey herb.

Gotta go, so I'll talk more about that next time.