Confession #7: I LOVE MLM Companies
I confess. I've said many negative things in the past about the multi-level marketing (MLM) companies that have sprung up in the last 20 years. I don't like the way they operate using “pseudo” science, promoting extreme undiluted use and daily doses in water or...
Confession #8: Why I Really Need Help in Restarting
I've accepted that at the awesome age of 63, my silver hair is lovely and I have thin skin that shows experience and feelings. I've learned to appreciate the joy in the beautiful experience of “croning," or becoming an elder. I have a new appreciation of where I've...
I did not set out to form a disaster relief organization (Thank you Doug E)
Doug E. Rasmusson was my inspiration to get involved with disaster relief. Affectionately known as "Doug E", he had over the previous years become a very good friend, mentee, supporter and instructor for the Atlantic Institute of Aromatherapy. We first met when he...
I did not set out to write a book….
By 1994, I had so many books to look up information on specific oils, I decided to create a wall chart for quick reference. Thanks to my hubby who set up the chart format on his computer, I was able to began typing it all in. Then I cut and pasted the first sections...
Let the studies begin
After half a decade of playing around with oils on my own, I wanted to expand my offerings and share the knowledge I had collected. One big influence in this endeavor was Kurt Schnaubelt. Original Swiss Aromatics started up in 1983 and his Pacific Institute of...
I Will Not Die an Unlived Life Part 2
The word ‘cancer’ encompasses over 200 different diseases, yet when it affects an individual it takes on a greater significance, a different tone, and much more meaning. The day my doctor told me I had breast cancer, she also said it would not kill me, but it would...
I Thought I Invented It
In the mid 70’s, like all good hippies, I went on a 6-week road-trip with my Mom in a VW microbus camper to California and back. I found the first scent shop I had ever seen in Dallas, TX. That shop changed my life! The smells were wonderful; the colored oils in glass...
Who Would Have ‘Thunk’ It?
When many aromatherapists gathered for the 2006 Aromatherapy Conference by Michael Alexander in St. Pete, FL, my brother D, allowed us to raffle him for a dinner date for United Aromatherapy Effort, Inc. to raise funds. Jane Buckle won him and wrote a poem I shared in...
I started out as a child.
I started out as a child of wonder, in a natural world of soft, furry animals that would let me rub their ears on my upper lip. We had woods in which to discover nature and build secret camps. I rolled down hills, I ran in grass, and witnessed the seasons of change as...
I will not die an unlived life
Dawna Markova wrote the poem, I Will Not Die An Unlived Life I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my...