A cute piece on the Pope’s flashy red (and probably Prada-designed) loafers aired Tuesday on CNN. You’ll love this video clip. I have to thank Beliefnet.com’s astrologer Shelley Ackerman for sending it to me with the note: “Jupiter in Scorpio indeed!” Her astrological analysis of the new pontiff’s birth chart ran on Beliefnet soon after…

In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln offered this Thanksgiving proclamation to the nation in the throes of the Civil War. The following quote sounds so apt for our world today: “I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning…

My husband and I will be driving up to western Massachusetts with the kids tomorrow for the holiday. So today I prepared for the trip by taking my car in to have the oil changed. Also, for the past six days, a strange little light has flashed insistently on the dashboard. It looks like a…

I would like to contribute something else to your upcoming Thanksgiving–a grateful thought directed towards all the world’s hidden and helpful people, all the enlightened beings you wouldn’t expect to show up in the nick of time, but who nevertheless walk through the woods to where you are, speaking your language no less, seeming to…

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