Claire Conger

I just watched a very sweet movie, Sex, Lies, and Videotape(1989).

Andie MacDowell shines as a newly married housewife, Ann, caught in a love quadrangle. The movie has a slow, dreamy pace that runs at the speed of Ann’s unfolding. We follow her as she figures out what’s going on and brings into alignment what she wants and who she is with what she has.

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I flipped on the TV for the first time in a month, hoping for a Masterpiece Theater mystery and what did I get? Dr Daniel Amen on making your brain healthy.

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Thanks to reader Ada for turning us on to Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor and her book My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey.”

Read Ada’s comment on Wow! Oprah is Working with Happiness Guru Eckhart Tolle.

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The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing, a book of seven interconnected short stories by Melissa Bank, has excellent advice about dating: Be yourself!

Dr Phil, I’m sure, would agree.

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I like new age thinking because it teaches emotional intelligence. In Change Your Thoughts–Change Your Life: Living the Wisdom of the Tao Wayne Dyer interprets 81 versus of Lao-tzu’s Tao Te Ching. You can practice with one verse a day, then start over and do it again. As much as I enjoy Dr Dyer’s work, however, I can’t help but think he is unclear on a basic concept. He gives himself away with his language.

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