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In the airport last night, on my way to South Carolina to visit my dad, I purchased the latest copies of “O” (Oprah’s magazine) and “Spa.” My chattering assumption (I could hear it loud and clear) was that in “Spa” I might find fodder for a blog item that would shed light on–and perhaps even…

Will David Blaine’s breath-holding stunt encourage others to explore the yogi-like ability to slow down the heartbeat, still their metabolism, and stay super calm? Or is there a masochistic character to the man’s pranks? Is he shortening his life? Or is the endurance artist like a moth that must fly into the flame? I’m thinking…

We let the young Chatterings stay up the other night to see if David Blaine could hold his breath under water for nine minutes (who knew ABC’s program would run on until 10 p.m.?). Next morning: uh-oh. Younger Chattering woke up and announced he still had some homework to finish. Actually he’d told me that…

Imagine inviting a friend into your home for a visit and a long talk. Then imagine serving something as beautiful as these hand-tied tea blossoms in a clear mug of hot water. You could be discussing the saddest thing: a divorce, an illness, death, or mishap. But the tea would revive and uplift you both.…

When I look back on the days when I was either nursing or carrying my children constantly, I remember two things: The way Mr. Chattering would rush home to help me (since he’s generally worked in offices and I’ve mostly worked from home), and the life-saving humor of my women’s group–mothers I’d met at the…

I upset a reader last Sunday with my post that said that while I favor natural medicines to conventional ones, I am trying not to judge those who go the conventional route because I’ve come to see that mood-altering medicines for depression and sleeplessness “may have” a role. I wish now I’d said, “have a…

Today, I noodled around a website called GreenHome.com, and I realized, quite frankly, that I’m not as green as I like to think. Green Home markets a vast collection of hard-to-find products, all environmentally sound. I like the site’s no-frills atmosphere, and the way it seems to widen the field of what’s sustainable or good…

Every time I go to synagogue with my husband and kids, one or two passages will leap off the prayer book page and touch me deeply. Here’s one I gravitated toward last Friday at Temple Beth Elohim, on the eve of my nephew’s bar mitzvah: “In this circle of hope, in the presence of the…

“Pray as if everything depends upon God; act as if everything depends upon you.” —Abraham Joshua Heschel.

“Anger does not require hostile acting out. First and foremost, it is a physiological process to be experienced. Second, it has cognitive value–it provides essential information. Since anger does not exist in a vacuum, if I feel anger it must be in response to some perception on my part. It may be a response to…
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