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Last night around 10 p.m., I was sitting at the dining room table with my portable computer before me, doing my ambitious woman blogger thing, setting up my posts for today. My 10-year-old Chattering, who’d gone to bed 30 minutes earlier, descended the stairs and walked toward me, looking most adorable in his underwear. “Mommy,…

Morning’s at seven; The hill-side’s dew-pearl’d; The lark’s on the wing; The snail’s on the thorn; God’s in his heaven— All’s right with the world! —Robert Browning, 1812-1889

Doreen Virtue has organized an International Angel Day this Sunday, September 10th, a day when angel communicators are available en masse to teach others about “angelic healing and communication.” Virtue claims that “The angels want us to hold this event so that we’ll all focus on light instead of dark, love instead of fear” as…

There’s a great story in today’s New York Times about green home design with quotes from various sources on the importance of living around growing things. While there’s some debate about whether walls like these clean the air or create molds that might cause allergies, the future looks bright for this kind of connected-to-nature style.…

Also in the Times today was a photo of this laptop desk, which intrigues me. I’ve written Louis Slesin, creator of the informative website MicrowaveNews.com to see if this is an acceptable way to avoid EMFs and keep your lap top off your lap when you’re away from your home desk! Will let you know…

I find Noah Kalina’s six-year self portrait incredibly moving. It’s a work in progress. Take a peek.

If you’re a parent, the good news might be that your kids are back in school, and you have slightly more time to yourself. The bad news (though you’re not supposed to tell anyone you feel rotten about this) is that there’s nightly homework to cope with again. And the settling-into-homework period can be a…

If you are not inclined to take a Brain Gym course or buy the books, just try this posture to get an inkling of what I’m raving about. You can easily relax in this at your desk. I sometimes just sit in it at concerts or at the theater (no one’s looking, right?), or do…

“Oh, it’s such a kick to photograph children’s auras,” Waterfall said gleefully as she tore the membrane off the Polaroid prints. “The energy of children is so BIG! See? You can’t even see their bodies or faces!” Sure enough, both photographs of the kids were nearly all yellow, both with an orange outline, and no…
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