Are “feet of clay” really just human flaws?

June 24, 2026
Surprise, surprise. Deepak Chopra was an Epstein buddy. Cesar Chavez raped women and minors. Many big names appear in the files in what seem to be incriminating ways. Powerful men and yes, women, too, overlooked, ignored or even took part in nefarious activities. Horrific things happened....

Remembrance on a rainy day

March 17, 2016
Mercilessly, the rain beat down from a grey sky. As I clicked my windshield wiper lever to high,  I looked up at the Santa Cruz mountains framing the road,  the same...

The secret about The Secret

March 16, 2016
It's been 10 years now since the book, The Secret, and its promotion of the law of attraction captured popular imagination. The law of attraction is said to be a...

There IS a shortcut to fitness

March 15, 2016
Have you added strength training to your workout? Do you think you need to do multiple sets for hours on end to get results? Think again. About a decade ago, I learned...

Spring Pacifica Beauty giveaway

March 14, 2016
It was rare for me to get excited about a mascara. I wanted to, because my thin, skimpy lashes need help. But most mascaras haven't delivered on their promises....

Cayce on forgiveness

March 13, 2016
The Meditation Room at the Edgar Cayce A.R.E. in Virginia Beach is a beautiful place. While visiting last year, I noticed little paper scrolls in a glass bowl with an...

The peace of wild things

March 12, 2016
The Peace of Wild Things Wendell Berry When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s...

Trans-selfish

March 11, 2016
Are we over our romance with trans- people? I got to know my first trans- person in 1990, so you'll pardon me if I yawn through the gossip sites that cover every outfit...

On the day I die

March 10, 2016
I don't read a lot of blogs by men, but this one, well, I read regularly.  Stuff That Needs to be Said by John Pavlovitz, a minister and pastor with a profound message....

It’s a 2 o’clock world

March 9, 2016
A trumpet plays a mournful tune nine floors below, then I hear a bagpipe. A bagpipe?  Breaking glass tinkles like a discordant piano, then crashes like cymbals. It's...

ID, boarding pass and … mask?

March 8, 2016
Thank you to the guy who coughed all over me during my recent flight home from San Diego. Yes, I know it was you. I could smell the pizza you had for lunch. Learn to...

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