Entries from February 2008
Last weekend I relished the joys of a trashy novel. It was Candace Bushnell‘s Trading Up that eased my pain. (I was slammed by a renegade snowboarder on the snowy slopes at Tahoe and all I can do is lie around and convalesce.) I buzzed through all 500 some odd pages in two days of lolling in the sun with my injured leg elevated. Read more... (188 words, 2 images, estimated 45 secs reading time)
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Tags: Emotional Freedom · Health and Happiness · Non Fiction
From so many sources I’ve found advice epitomized in this book’s title: Think and Grow Rich. Imagine yourself in the place you want to be and you’ll be there before you know it!
The prescription is to write down, in detail, what you want to happen. It will come, like magic. Your desires will manifest in reality. Read more... (193 words, 4 images, estimated 46 secs reading time)
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Tags: Emotional Freedom · Non Fiction · Personal Success
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Jeanne Phillips in her Dear Abby column Saturday February 16 has the anger problem wrong again. (The reader may remember my post Dear Abby Needs an Education in Anger in which I flogged Ms. Phillips for, in effect, advising a woman to be angry for the rest of her life.) Read more... (296 words, 2 images, estimated 1:11 mins reading time)
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Tags: Emotional Freedom · Health and Happiness
Why is it that the only touch I expect in my life is from a boyfriend?
In the U.S. we’re “oddly touch deprived” says psychology instructor Dacher Keltner of UC Berkeley.* In fact, it would seem we have mores against touching. In the U.S., Keltner lectures, when people sit talking together at coffee, they seldom touch each other, while in Europe and South America, people taking coffee together touch each other frequently. Read more... (405 words, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)
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Tags: Emotional Freedom · Health and Happiness · Love and Sex · Relationships
Know someone who’s severely restricting her diet in hopes of living longer, just like rats?
Ha! Turns out it won’t do her any good. The hundreds of studies of long-living, calorie-limited rats have one thing in common: The rats are so deprived that they’re kept at a pre-pubescent level. They do not reproduce. Read more... (163 words, 2 images, estimated 39 secs reading time)
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Tags: Health and Happiness · Love and Sex · Non Fiction
Claire's Original Art Greeting Cards
There is nothing that says I care like a real snail-mail greeting card!
Click on a picture above for a plain-paper printable greeting card pdf.
Print on regular 8.5 by 11 printer paper. Fold twice so that the art is on the front and the title and copyright are on the back.
Write your greeting on the inside.
Mail in an A2 Invitation Envelope.
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