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Why You Need A Travel Bucket List

My friend Lois Alter Mark wrote an article for Forbes about travel bucket lists and quoted me about the importance of writing down your goals and how creating a bucket list can actually make you accomplish them. Here’s what she has to say on the topic – (To view the […]


Weight. What?

Each year I teach workshops focused on weight loss, so I thought I would share some thoughts about the What, Why and also the How on this subject. What? Okay, so you are not feeling ideal about your weight. What I have found in working with hundreds of people and […]


What Are You Yearning For?

What is yearning? It is the call of our soul to lead us to our right path. Whenever we are following this yearning it leads to feeling good. When we feel good, more good happens. When we are on the right path we likely will find that we treat ourselves […]


Circling Back to “A Course In Miracles”

I am a reluctant Catholic, and have always been since I was a child. I loved the ritual and praying in unison with a congregation. I also loved the singing. Yet, there were so many messages from the church that didn’t make sense to me so I felt distanced from […]


Silence Is Golden

When I was young I felt the need to fill any quiet moment of time with my talking. I was a chatterbox. I would follow my mother around the house when I got home from school everywhere she went, telling her each detail of my day, moment by moment. The […]


Hello You Hero

Definition of hero from Merriam-Webster Dictionary: 1
a :  a mythological or legendary figure often of divine descent endowed with great strength or ability
 b :  an illustrious warrior
 c :  a person admired for achievements and noble qualities
 d :  one who shows great courage Since I have been involved […]


Life Is Like A Box of Chocolates, or, Meet My Grandmother

Life is a box of chocolates at one-hundred! My Grandmother turned one-hundred in October of 2014. It is a major achievement for someone to live to this milestone, and it is also a wonderful opportunity to appreciate what it takes to live for this long. I have been thinking about […]


Never Say Never, Or How I Began Doing Bikram (Hot) Yoga

I have done yoga, alone in my bedroom, off and on for a few years. I am not particularly flexible nowadays, but once I was fairly so. I had a health problem in the beginning of the year and since then I had done no yoga at all. My older […]


Nagging

Nag Relief 101

So… DO you nag? Does your significant other avoid the next furrowed brow or deep sigh as you notice what you had asked for has not yet been done? He is well trained to read your body language when you are less than pleased and when your expectations have not […]