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Has HearthSong.com gone mad? Check out this kit of snowman faces on one of my (formerly?) favorite websites for spiritual kid gifts. Ahem! What was so wrong with the coal and the carrot?

Well, Prince is dead. I euthanized him in a large pot that I let sit overnight in the basement refrigerator. Prince was our angelfish. And when the kids and I bought him nearly two years ago, he really looked like an angel. He was the most beautifully formed tropical fish I’d ever seen. At his…

“I want to take my temperature again,” were my nine-year-old son’s first words this morning. “Hmmm,” he said, frowning at the results. “98.4.” “Yeah, I think you can go to school,” I said, stroking his forehead. “But look, only three more weeks until Christmas vacation.” It’s such a typical child’s lament: Thanksgiving’s over, back to…

CHANGE If you knew that you would die todayIf you saw the face of God and loveWould you change?Would you change?If you knew that love can’t break your heartWhen you’re down so low you cannot fallWould you change, would you change? How bad, how good, does it need to get?How many losses, how much regret?What…

Hey, how are you doing in your efforts to drink eight glasses of water a day? I have re-devoted myself to the ritual, but my daily totals are still uneven. Yesterday, I counted only four or five glasses. The day before that, I drank the full eight and felt alive and well. Vibrant might be…

Please read Wendy Schuman’s Beliefnet.com interview with author and religious studies scholar Huston Smith. If you are fascinated with what joins the world’s great faiths, Smith is a wonderful author–I’d argue the best. His books are comprehensible and accessible. And there’s a warmth to the man, a gorgeous heroism, that radiates through everything he says.…

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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