1. Did you know that your heart has arms and legs? It does. The heart that we see in medical shows when a surgeon is saving somebody’s life is only part of the organ. The entire heart has long tendrils like tree branches that go down… Read full post »

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          Are you a strong, driven Type A personality who can do whatever it takes to get the job done?

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There's a new link to an excerpt from my book Conversations with Mom: An Aging Baby Boomer, in Need of an Elder, Writes to Her Dead Mother. It has to do with being addicted to confusion and fear. Enjoy: 

"Confusion & Addiction"

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Excerpt from Conversations with Mom: An Aging Baby Boomer, in Need of an Elder, Writes to Her Dead Mother (my new book) is on a site called Downright Fiction.

The excerpt is about that damned “Law of Attraction” theory as well as other stuff.

Re DownrightFiction site: “D… Read full post »

I’ve been criticized for being too far afield in this blog. Writing about the things I love—a diverse area—leads to a kind of eclecticism that does not sell books. And since I am a writer, and since I want to sell books, I should get my act together!

I’m also an… Read full post »

I dislike buying bras so I do it only when I must — about once a decade I buy a bunch and wear them until they stretch out. Well, bra day is here, and I decide to go to J.C. Penney because I hope it will be cheaper than… Read full post »

It’s Monday morning. It’s still raining. And I’m still looking for work. Looking for work is my work …

Ah ha, methinks, why not use this work for a reachable goal (as opposed to actually finding a job)? Why not share all the interesting stuff I find, but can’t necessar… Read full post »

…Courtesy of Kay Wild Atelier

I spent the weekend eating great food, laughing, talking, and sitting in front of a crackling fire with my friends Peter and Kay Wild in their rustic home in Newtown, Connecticut. And it wasn’t until I got home that I realized I might have been… Read full post »

The Courage to Linger

The other night on PBS News Hour, computer scientist and author of You Are Not a Gadget, Jaron Lanier, bemoaned the fact that the Internet has birthed cyberfill (read as “landfill in cyberspace”). “Consumer identity got the best of people,” he ex/… Read full post »

Red, orange, and rose are the new black for 2010. Representing the root (survival), second (sex), and the fourth (a loving heart) chakras, you can't go wrong in this practical and flattering coats and booties ensemble.

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This week I’ve been watching a lot of old movies on my very new, very high-tech computer. I suspect I’m seeing more pristine images with more clarity than directors Preston Sturges or William Wyler ever imagined possible. I’m admiring and enjoying the movies, despi… Read full post »

In my experience, places where people come together to work on their issues — spiritual communities; self-actualization, therapy, and intentional change groups; small gatherings devoted to identifying and resolving personal gunk — become, by necessity, very gunky oceans of gunk. And when… Read full post »

I’m high! I’m drunk with beauty! I’m over the moon!

This morning I took a three-hour walk in the park. It is the Friday before the New York City Marathon, and people are everywhere, speaking every language on the planet, excited to be in… Read full post »

 “So how do you know the difference between going with the flow and letting yourself drown?” writes author Eileen Flanagan in her new book, The Wisdom to Know the Difference (Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, Sept. 2009). “One answer is to see if what is flowing withi… Read full post »

I suddenly realized that my unemployed lulls are a great time to read the “I’m-gonna-read-that-someday” pile. Here are a couple of interesting facts from two sources in that pile:

1. In How God Changes Your Brain, neuroscientist Andrew Newberg, M.D., says t… Read full post »

Since I finished writing a new novel, I’ve been down. It’s the contraction that inevitably follows the expansion of creative emission, I tell myself. Or maybe it’s the fact that my agent says that nobody’s buying fiction, no matter how good or well-written or fu… Read full post »

“Body movements affect emotional processes. For example, adopting the facial expressions of specific emotions (even via unobtrusive manipulations) affects emotional judgments and memories,” says a study in the August 25th volume of Psychological Science. So here is me, writing this blog:… Read full post »

There are three pertinent pieces of background to this story: 

(1) I am allergic to tomato plants; 

(2) It takes approximately 500 years for a plastic bag to decompose in a landfill;

(3) Anything that demonstrates a determination to stay alive is an object of my admira

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Strength, manifesting as gentleness to oneself, produces non-aggression.  Read full post »

 I just learned about a new service that advertises: “Create the Illusion of Communication!”

This phone company will connect your call straight to somebody’s voicemail, bypassing all human contact. A good thing?

What have we become? What are we becoming? What are we… Read full post »

 Theo Kamecke lives alone in and on five acres of breathtaking art in the Catskill Mountains. The man simply must create art — whether it’s a garden, a home furnished with handmade everything, a meal for guests, or a log bench overlooking a… Read full post »

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