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Don’t pass the buck! Bring a prayer to the Thanksgiving table this year! Here’s a wonderful guide to prayers of many faiths and wisdom traditions.

“The basis for the new film ‘Zen Noir’ is a kind of funny concept,” writes Beliefnet’s spirituality editor Valerie Reiss in this short review. “A noir-style detective investigates a murder in a Buddhist temple. When he asks questions, he gets slippery, koan-type answers. ‘My name isn’t me,’ says one Buddhist. When pressed, the robed man…

The folks at DuPont have regrouped and are now fighting allegations from the EPA that their Teflon coating on non-stick cookware includes a chemical that is a “likely carcinogen.” The gasses Teflon produces at high heat are certainly bad for pet birds; DuPont addresses the canary-in-a-coal-mine problem here. Lately, I’ve been noticing an expensive ad…

Yusuf Islam’s new album “An Other Cup,” is getting middlin’ marks on Amazon–some fans are complaining that his voice sounds “weak.” But the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens has a sparkling website with audio clips of him on anger, prayer, and peace, as well as a lengthy and fascinating autobiography in which he chronicles…

Ebay currently hosts some 26 pages of antique/vintage holiday cards, all fun, some in boxes, some loose. Here‘s a CD you can buy to download vintage holiday card images and then print out with a color printer.

I inwardly chattered all Tuesday night, worried I’d been mean to James Taylor in my review of his dreary Christmas album. I’m just not a natural-born critic, I guess. How do professional reviewers subdue their smug feelings of superiority? Many don’t, I guess. Plus, there’s a yearning for bitchiness in our culture. But when writers…

After several months of steady use, your yoga mat’s odor may get distracting in the nose-down positions of the cobra or locust. But, “once avidya is lifted, the best solutions are often the simplest,” claims the ad copy for this yoga mat wash. Developed by clever yogini Selena Stirlen, this all-natural brew can be used…

I didn’t marry until I was 36, so I had about 15 years of heartache-y holidays–alone, unprotected, and bummed that nobody loved me. Or so I thought. For many people, the period from Thanksgiving to New Year’s is miserable and unmanageable. People rush, drink, and argue to excess. As we prepare to wrap up another…

I don’t know if you’ve got plans the evenings of November 27th and 29th, but you may well be struggling with a weighty decision: whether or not to lower yourself enough to watch O.J. Simpson talking on Fox about how he would have murdered his wife and her friend Ron Goldman if he had murdered…

James Taylor’s newly-released holiday album is essentially a refurbished collection from 2004, and I’ve got to tell you, having just spent the morning with it: It retains its highs and lows. Old Baby James’ renditions of “Jingle Bells” and “Winter Wonderland” have a sleepy, detached, I’d-rather-be-on-Martha’s-Vineyard-quality–which is really too bad since I suspect they’re gonna…
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