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The Healing Baby

The Healing Baby

I woke up the other day feeling sort of “off.”  I knew I had a lot on my mind, a lot of pressing responsibilities, decisions, pressures I was feeling.  When I get like this I feel sort of “up against a wall.”  I have learned that if I don’t stop and let my subconscious have [...]

Intestinal Desecrations

Intestinal Desecrations

In the mid-1970’s, my parents became obsessed with a clean colon.  My mother, a “happy eater” and daily drinker believed bran could cure all.  My father, a devoted runner and equally dedicated alcoholic, drank yeast mixed with orange juice and a raw egg every day.  Whole grains (bran, oats, flax seed, wheat), vegetables, and nuts [...]

You May Say I’m a Dreamer

You May Say I’m a Dreamer

This was a post I wrote for my blog called “Confessions of a Mad Soap Star.”   I thought it was particularly pertinent to this time, as we are in the process of choosing leaders, not just in politics but on many stages.  Some of these “dreams” have been met, but not others, and certainly [...]

Letting in and Letting Go

Letting in and Letting Go

If life has taught me anything, it is that feeling close to another human being is the greatest feeling there is.  To feel connected, understood, accepted for who you are is what we are all looking for, what we all yearn for.  What gets in the way are the experiences we have had where others [...]

Writing is Hard Work

Writing is Hard Work

So I am writing a book.  Yes, I am.  Actually, it’s more truthful to say I wrote a book.  A whole book.  I submitted it to an agent, she liked it, we met, she asked to work with me, I said yes and now …  I am re-writing a book.  Ha ha!  That’s how it [...]

Talkin’ About a Revolution

No one is more surprised than me at the incredible response my comments on PP garnered. 99.9% of them positive. I think I touched a nerve. A nerve that goes deep into what we are experiencing together culturally. The average person feels as if they are losing out to those with more power, and that [...]

Gentle Discipline

Gentle Discipline

Everyone asks me, “Doesn’t writing take so much discipline?”  I say, “well, yes it does, but everything else worth having does, too.” Think about it, doesn’t it take restraint not to yell at a stranger when you are really angry?  That’s discipline. Or to NOT eat the entire carton of low fat ice cream, even [...]

Steps

Steps

Step One:  CLEAN YOUR ROOM I’m not kidding.  Cleaning out the painful reminders of the past and the useless junk of the present is the best way to create space both exteriorly and interiorly for new life to come in.  It’s hard to make beauty when all around you is chaos.  So if you are [...]