Spa me

There’s something juicy about trying to figure out when to schedule my massage next week in Asheville. And then there are the details. With a mountain view? With stones? A 50-minute or an 80-minute? Oh, the chore of it all.

The pain-body

Tonight’s class on A New Earth with author Eckhart Tolle and Oprah was soul food once again. This week we were introduced to what Tolle calls the pain-body, defined as the “energy field of old but still very-much-alive emotion that lives in almost every...

Music to my ears

The men in my family have provided a nice soundtrack for my life this week. Dad converted four cassette tapes he had made me a while back into CDs. I’ve indulged in some swinging Sinatra the last few days. My brother loaded up my MP3 player with goodies, most of...

A dose of Marianne

I have been happily toiling at writing a Game Plan column for FOXBusiness.com this evening and as part of my research I went on Marianne Williamson’s website. It was a joyful reminder of her famous quote once used in a speech by Nelson Mandela and it bears...

Snake-bitten

Read this story about Wal-Mart today: http://news.aol.com/story/_a/wal-mart-sues-disabled-ex-employee/20080329083609990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001 Reminded me of the fact that the endangered northern pine snake is holding up the building of a Wal-Mart near my...