Your Charmed Life

When I lived in Kansas City, I hardly ever opened an umbrella and I hadn’t had galoshes since 5th grade. There was no need: the car was right outside and most of the places I was going had covered parking. Here in Manhattan, however, if rains, you get wet. If it snows, you get flaky.…

It’s impossible to live a charmed life, or even a good one, when we’re pretending to be someone we aren’t. It’s hard not to put on camouflage and try to fit in everywhere, and yet the freedom of standing for what one stands for is lovely indeed. You may have read yesterday’s comments. A gentleman…

When I did yesterday’s blog, I somehow told Movable Type, the program Beliefnet bloggers use to get our thoughts from our heads to your screen, to eliminate my ability to put in images (or links to other sites or italics or boldface type or anything interesting). I am now at the mercy of technology, forced…

This seems like a good time to share some of my favorite prosperity affirmations from wonderful teachers of the past and present. Find one you like and use it lavishly. Florence Scovel Shinn: I am harmonious, poised, and magnetic. I now draw to myself my own. My power is God’s power and is irresistible. Chris…

Monday’s Blog, written Sunday night: I just figured out why today was so terrific: I didn’t venture far from myself. That’s not to say that it isn’t thrilling at times to do something totally new and out of character. It’s just that we’re called upon to bend and stretch and change and alter ourselves so…

Tomorrow is my birthday, and I’d like to share with you my thoughts on celebrating the once-a-year holiday we all get that’s out very own. The excerpt is from my book, Younger by the Day: Having Brilliant Birthdaysfrom Younger by the Day: 365 Ways to Rejuvenate Your Body & Revitalize Your Spirit by Victoria MoranPublished…

My daughter, Adair, was doing some background work earlier this week and sent me this photo entitled, “Me in the 1950s.” I was shocked at how much the picture looked like one of my mother when she was young, taken in the actual decade. I wrote that back to Adair, along with: “I’m glad we’re…

I had the best day on Sunday, largely because of the people in it. First I met two folks from church before the service. Charlana is a singer and Bruce is a dancer—boy, is he! He has that Fosse thing going on—totally engaging. I don’t know either Bruce or Charlana very well yet, but we’re…

1. Accept yourself.    If this is difficult, clean up your past as best you can and then look at each day at the end of it so you can make things right as you go along. None of us is ever going to be perfect, but we can start each day fresh and feel good…

With St. Paddy’s Day coming up tomorrow, I was thinking about my favorite green drink in all the world — not beer with food coloring in it. It is, rather, “Green Lemonade,” a delectable concoction to which I was introduced in The Raw Foods Detox Diet. Author Natalia Rose suggests this fresh juice as the…

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