When our cultural icons die

September 7, 2026
As I write this we’ve just lost both Dolly Parton and Gloria Steinem, two women who helped shape our generation. Why do I feel such grief? It hits differently when a cultural icon dies. The grief can seem strangely disproportionate to the relationship we actually had with them. We had...

Are we destroying ourselves?

June 9, 2014
Have you ever looked around and wondered, "Are we destroying ourselves?" We decided to have lunch at Half Moon Bay the other day, a beautiful beach community on the...

Living with an open heart

June 8, 2014
These past four days I lived in a place where all hearts were wide open. No, we weren't all sitting around singing Kumbaya. Not at all. We were scientists, scholars,...

Teachings from Master Spirits

June 7, 2014
If you’re not familiar with Brian L. Weiss, MD, who wrote Many Lives, Many Masters, a classic in the realm of spirituality, I highly recommend the book. Let me trot...

Are you psychic?

June 6, 2014
  It's one thing to think you are intuitive, as I believe I am and it's another to believe you can really read another person. I am at the 4th Annual Afterlife...

Seer, serendipity or snow job?

June 5, 2014
This is the second part of a series on ... well, what IS it on? Can the future really be predicted? Can some people actually talk to the dead?  In yesterday’s...

Psychic, soothsayer or scam?

June 4, 2014
Ever wanted to know if someone could predict your future? There’s nothing more fascinating to us than the future: planning for it, saving for it, thinking about it...

Inspired by a porn star

June 3, 2014
  Ever met a porn star? Porn star Ginger Lynn sat next to me on a plane once. I knew it was her because her sateen jacket said so, not because I recognized her. Truth...

Back to the Sixties

June 2, 2014
It was a decade in which so much happened we could hardly keep up with it. Vietnam. Women’s liberation. Civil rights. Assassinations. The moon walk. The air was...

Let’s play a game

June 1, 2014
I saw this number on rocks along the jetty at Half Moon Bay, Calif. the other day. There are others, too, but not necessarily consecutive. It was...

Cheaper than a facelift; less painful than botox

May 31, 2014
"Stress takes its toll." We hear it all the time and so many of us, including me, pay lip service to it. But do we really believe it? Like aging, the ravages of stress...

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