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I just took our latest quiz, “How Good Are Your Personal Boundaries,” and um, I failed. Ok, not failed, but apparently in certain areas I’m not so good at asserting and communicating my needs. I knew that, but it’s somewhat enlightening to have it pointed out to me by a quiz, meaning its creator Andrea…

Punk rock legend Patti Smith is coming out with a raved-about memoir today, Just Kids, about her relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and the downtown NYC arts scene in the 1960s and 70s. The two were friends, lovers, muses, and more–well before either one of them got famous. (The photo at left, by Gerard Malanga,…

Many years ago a friend who was starting to do yoga (yet to be anywhere near the everywhere-you-look phenom it is today) told me about her discovery: Start every day with warm lemon water. She said it had pretty much changed her life by answering her body’s need for something calming, cleansing, and refreshing. The…

Letting this one sink in this morning. So simple, and yet… But so essential and what we want most for ourselves, right? “The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find…
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