WRITING & RESOURCES
43 years of thinking out loud.
Useful information, strong opinions, recipes, academic articles, and occasional meditations on why Chinese medicine keeps being right about things. These posts migrated from sixfishes.com, where I wrote for over a decade. The voice is the same. The clinic has changed hands. The knowledge doesn't expire.
Late Summer is the Fifth Season: Nourishing the Earth Element
In Chinese medicine there are five seasons, and late summer is the one the Western calendar skips. It belongs to the Earth element: digestion, grounding, and Spleen Qi.
What's Cara Cooking? Gisele's Charoseth
This is my most treasured Passover recipe — a Sephardic charoseth that belonged to Gisele, a patient who became family. She carried the recipe entirely in her head. After she passed, her family helped piece it together. Last year, I made it and told her she had to help me out. It was really close. She would have been proud.