Making the commitment to be a Health Champion and do the "HUSTLE UP THE HANCOCK" on February 22, 2009. wasn't an easy decision. It took the gentle "dare" of a cardiac nurse and Niki Bartosiak, the Senior Special Events Manager for the Respiratory Health Association of Metropolitan Chicago to chal
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11/10/2008
I have gratefully sold the last of my Allergen Reduced Homes inventory for now and until the market improves, I have decided to put my energy into something recession proof... saving people on their gas and electric bills. I actually bought my own energy business! Here are some things you probabl
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10/15/2008
MY buyer told me that his 4 year old daughter had walked through about 20 houses and the little girl was not able to last for more than 15 minutes before her asthma would start and her allergies would kick in. It brought back many of my own memories. As a child though, I had no relief, no refuge.
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09/27/2008
I just got back from 5 weeks of packing, moving and unpacking myself and my son. Moving has to be one of the most stressful things in life. My son and I had been living in a beautiful 3 bedroom home in Highland Park. When he turned 18, he decided to go to school in Desoto Illinois to a college
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07/31/2008
As a developer of Allergen Reduced Homes, I've had to study the enemy pretty closely. To me there are many enemies of us allergy sufferers. Among them are mold, pollen, chemicals, smoke, and dust mites. They are behind only pollen as the world's second greatest cause of allergies. Today, because
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05/30/2008
Tonight, I'm dining at Panera Bread. It's like a Starbucks but focused more on Bread, food and pastries with great coffee that you can get in a ceramic mug. For a fast food establishment, they seem to want you to relax and hang out. They serve their food in ceramic bowls and plates. They seem to
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04/30/2008
I held her in my arms as she gasped for her last breaths...though she was unconscious, I particularly identified with her struggle to take those breaths. Nothing is more upsetting than watching someone gasping for their breath...but I new it was her time. She was my feline friend for 19 years. W
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03/14/2008
HOW GREEN IS THY GARDEN?I am sitting here in a McDonalds near my Edgewater property in this great city of Chicago. I started thinking about this new concept of rooftop "ECO" gardens that the city is starting to put up on the top of buildings. My first thought was why? After digging a little, I f
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02/03/2008
LIVING IN A CHEMICAL WORLD...what manufacturers don't want you to know...Breathing...we all do it. Yet most of us just assume that the air we breathe is good. Though if we are lucky and have normal brain functions the act of taking a breath is automatic and not a choice. What we breathe in our ho
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01/07/2008
THE ITCHY TRUTH ABOUT TODAYS HOMES One of my earlier homes that I had lived in was a home in Highland Park, Illinois. Unlike the homes that we build, every time I walked in, my nose started running and I'd start sneezing. I couldn't imagine what that was all about. Strangely enough, I never made
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12/21/2007
