Anita Moorjani was in stage 4B of her cancer when she was rushed to the hospital, suffering from full-on organ failure. It was then that she had her near-death experience (NDE), which would change her life forever, and which, of course, is the subject of her book, Dying to Be Me: My Journey from Cancer, […]
A Near Death Experience and the Westboro Baptist Church
Want to Read My Love Letters?
I don’t know about you, but if I plan to be with someone 24/7 until the moment of my death, I’d strongly prefer to at least like them. I’m talking about our bodies here – the only relationship guaranteed to be lifelong. Since I can remember, I’ve had a tumultuous relationship with my body, alternately […]
The Office/The Odyssey: You Decide
Long ago, in my first round of “I must escape corporate hell,” I took a job as a receptionist – at that time my dream “easy” job. We all have these – jobs that we imagine to be so much easier than our own current employment. Some of my former coworkers, for example, dreamed of […]
Fat? Broke? Purposeless? Alone? It’s Party Time!
Are you happy with where you’re at in life? If not, have you ever been happy with where you’re at in life? I don’t know about you, but I often find that I’m looking for the next thing and then I’ll be happy, then I’ll celebrate. Sometime in the last year I realized that things […]
Harvest Time
Fall is my favorite season; I love the colors, the scents, the feeling of something magical happening. Even living in Southern California, with trees that get the pleasure of just staying green, I still feel the crispness of change in the air. Fall is harvest time – the perfect time to reflect on our internal […]
Happy New Year
Friends, we survived the end of the Mayan calendar, and are soon to turn over yet another new year. I have a fair amount of hatred for New Year’s resolutions, but I love doing something to celebrate the year that has passed and to form dreams for the upcoming year. If you’re looking for alternatives to resolutions, […]