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Letter From The Herbalist

Maureen Rogers

 

 

 

2008 has started with a bang.  On New Year's Day, I had a stroke.  Not a simple one, no...a major one.  So for the past 4 months I've recovered...regaining my memory, learning to use my left hand since the right one has been slow at recovering, letting people do things for me (really hard).  And learning that if things don't all get done, screw it.  :) 

I have a very simple philosophy now.  I will enjoy things a lot more.  I will not ignore my health and when my blood pressure is 280 over 170, I will not think the machine must be broken. 

I am still enamored with herbal remedies.  And I'm lucky I have a nurse practitioner who believes in them as well.   I will not try to hide my feelings in order to spare another's.  If one is behaving as an idiot, one will be told.   

The new Herbalpedia has outsold our previous editions.  I'm working on the 2009 edition and am really glad I had put this edition to bed when I did.  Made the new year much easier.  We're working on putting the Herbal Green Pages online and hope to have it up by July 1.  It will be awesome. 

Thank you so much for all the cards.  They were really appreciated more than I can ever express.  I never realized how much so many of you cared.  :-)

And do stop in at Ask The Herbalist.  We have a new one, Loryhl Davis.  She's already hard at work and you see her answers and information on the site.   Karen Mallenger, our previous herbalist, did a fantastic job, and we'll be forever grateful. 


Till next month

Maureen Rogers
Director, The Herb Growing and Marketing Network
and HerbNET's (modified) slave