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Spring Wind, 2025

Did anyone else notice how many times in the past week the weather said something like 52 but felt more like 32? Spring wind! In the lunar…

Mar 10

Spring Wind, 2025

Mar 10

Human Psychology in the Bottleneck

If you’d asked me what would bother me most about moving to the suburbs my answers would have revolved around the people and pace, the…

Dec 18, 2024

Human Psychology in the Bottleneck

Dec 18, 2024

Why is Parenting Harder These Days?

The original plan was to have two kids. My wife wanted three, I think because she was one of three, but we didn’t get started until she was…

Nov 18, 2024

Why is Parenting Harder These Days?

Nov 18, 2024

How I Got the Nickname “Crash”

Cypress Hill’s 1995 album, Black Sunday, hasn’t necessarily stood the test of time in hip hop lore, but at the end of that year it was my…

Oct 23, 2024

How I Got the Nickname “Crash”

Oct 23, 2024

Chinese Medicine on Loss of Voice

As we approach an exciting Yankees first World Series appearance in 15 years, Halloween, and an even scarier Election Day, there’s a good…

Oct 23, 2024

Chinese Medicine on Loss of Voice

Oct 23, 2024

Allergy Season and Chinese Medicine

Sep 18, 2024

Allergy Season and Chinese Medicine

Sep 18, 2024

Covid Wave, the August ’24 Edition

Aug 21, 2024

Covid Wave, the August ’24 Edition

Aug 21, 2024

Transitioning from Summer to Fall

Although it remains deftly hot and humid, according to the traditional calendar and evidenced in the shorter days and longer nights, we now…

Aug 14, 2024

Transitioning from Summer to Fall

Aug 14, 2024

Reconciling Rap Music to My Daughter

During our lives most hip-hop fans are forced to reconcile with the fact that hip hop might not like us. Whether you’re not from the hood…

Jul 31, 2024

Reconciling Rap Music to My Daughter

Jul 31, 2024

Which Sparkling Waters are Safe?

I don’t know many adults who don’t love sparkling water. I don’t know whether bubbles are having a generational popularity surge, or I’ve…

Jul 26, 2024

Which Sparkling Waters are Safe?

Jul 26, 2024

Breakfast Congee

For anyone who is vegan, sensitive to eggs, or just dislikes them, here is a breakfast idea I’ve been experimenting with, both for the sake…

Jul 15, 2024

Breakfast Congee

Jul 15, 2024

Tom Brady and Nightshade Vegetables

Jun 27, 2024

Tom Brady and Nightshade Vegetables

Jun 27, 2024

The Longest Days of the Year

Welcome to the Tai Yang time of year. Say that three times fast, and maybe add “Thank You,” to complete the trifecta, TYTYTY! “Tai Yang”…

Jun 12, 2024

The Longest Days of the Year

Jun 12, 2024

Chinese Medicine on Fainting, Dizziness

A friend of mine recently expressed having experienced great bouts of dizziness and fainting during the third trimester of her last…

May 15, 2024

Chinese Medicine on Fainting, Dizziness

May 15, 2024

Is Green Tea Healthy (for you)?

In the western world we are often guilty of over-polarizing and labeling. This political viewpoint is good, that one is bad, this diet is…

May 1, 2024

Is Green Tea Healthy (for you)?

May 1, 2024

How Much Sex is Healthy (in Chinese Medicine)?

Not a frequently addressed subject in western medicine, most likely mostly because they don’t have a strong point of view, possibly also…

Apr 17, 2024

How Much Sex is Healthy (in Chinese Medicine)?

Apr 17, 2024

Taking the Boy Out of NYC

Seated on the long, overground train, facing the wrong direction, attempting to get writing done on my morning commute, it became difficult…

Apr 10, 2024

Taking the Boy Out of NYC

Apr 10, 2024

The Shao Yang of Spring

As I made my way this Monday through my ten-block, 2 ½ avenue walk from Penn Station to the office, the 41-degree winds whipping into my…

Mar 13, 2024

The Shao Yang of Spring

Mar 13, 2024

When is Stress Actually the Cause?

I feel like in the 20th century no one was talking about stress as an etiology for disease. Possibly I am guilty of generational…

Mar 6, 2024

When is Stress Actually the Cause?

Mar 6, 2024

After Dinner With My Daughter

The mornings have been hellfire. You’re just over 21 months — not 21 years, yet you refuse to get out of bed, as if you’d been out late…

Feb 21, 2024

After Dinner With My Daughter

Feb 21, 2024

David Foster, L.Ac.

David Foster, L.Ac.

Acupuncturist and Chinese medicine in NYC, special focuses in neurological, psychiatric, orthopedic, and autoimmune conditions. Hip Hop Head, '88-'98

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