I’m well-acquainted with heartburn. As a lover of food, alcohol, and almost all other things consumable, I have often inadvertently acquainted my esophagus with my stomach acid. I also have asthma, and apparently asthma and heartburn have some kind of mysterious evil partnership. I’m lucky, however, in that my heartburn is usually relatively mild. It [...]
Author Archives: Amber Luck
Get Rid of Vaginitis
March 31, 2009 – 2:06 pm
Anyone who’s ever had vaginitis—and that’s a sizable majority of those of us with vaginas—knows exactly how much fun it is: none. Actually, a lot less than none. To deal emotionally with vaginitis, you need to have fun in the bank. The vagina is an important and sensitive part of a woman’s body, and when [...]
Get Rid of Bacterial Vaginosis
February 27, 2009 – 2:46 pm
Ah, bacterial vaginosis: the basis of all those jokes my guy friends told in college. You know, the ones involving tuna. And vaginas. Right. Anyway, those jokes always made me vaguely paranoid. I was pretty sure my vagina didn’t smell like fish, but who could be sure? It’s not as if my nose and my [...]
Get Rid of Cat Hair
January 27, 2009 – 10:30 am
If you have a cat, you have cat hair. It’s kind of like, if you have a baby, you have poop. It doesn’t mean you stop loving the baby and give it away. You just deal with the poop. Same goes for cat hair. So although it’s true that the only way to completely eliminate [...]
Get Rid of Back Pains
July 23, 2008 – 9:42 pm
I don’t have a problem with back pains, but my fiancé does. The poor guy’s back is like one of those topographical maps with ridges stamped into the paper where the mountains are. And it’s a map of a mountainous region. Not long ago, we brought home the World’s Most Expensive Bed, hoping it would [...]
Get Rid of Crabgrass
June 12, 2008 – 2:24 pm
Crabgrass. If you have a lawn or garden, chances are you’re familiar with it. You may even have figured out by now that it’s among the most tenacious of weeds. It quickly claims any open spaces in your lawn (even small ones), and if left unchecked, crabgrass can outcompete desirable turf grass for resources, spreading [...]
Get Rid of Slugs
May 12, 2008 – 9:51 pm
I never gave slugs much thought until I was 15 and my dad moved from Minnesota to Oregon, where slugs are practically part of the culture. They’re hard to ignore, anyway, since they’re roughly the size of chipmunks and often leopard-spotted and/or bright yellow. But even in Minnesota, where slugs are usually only an inch [...]
Get Rid of a Ghost
April 29, 2008 – 4:17 pm
I think my fear of ghosts took hold when I was a kid and spent a lot of nights at my grandparents’ Civil War-era farmhouse. There’s just nothing like an old house with a dank cellar, a seldom-used second story, picture-window views of dark fields, and a few volumes of ghost stories on the bookshelves [...]
Get Rid of Asian Beetles
April 18, 2008 – 10:50 am
An introduced species is rarely an entirely good thing, even if its introduction was intentional. When you take an animal or plant out of the habitat it evolved in and put it somewhere else, bad things usually happen, often to other species that live in the new habitat. Take, for example, Asian lady beetles, which [...]
