health

Hoop Dance in D.C. It’s okay. To answer your first question, I was never able to hula hoop as a kid, either. To answer your second one, it’s not the same thing. Hoop … dance? Hoop dance, often called hooping, has its modern origins in early 90s festivals. Jam band The Read More

The Worst Tummy Tamer It’s really nice how I keep coming across great topics for this column! By which I mean I keep experiencing summer-themed health woes and passing my learning onto you. I’ve spent the last week laid up with a terrible bug, inspiring this week’s column: how to Read More

Stopping Mosquito Bites Without DEET Apparently I’m one of those people who tastes really good to mosquitoes. It’s such crap. Of all the things in the animal kingdom I could naturally delicious to, it has to be the one that’s endemic to everywhere I like spending my summers, and Read More