My Virgo mother was unfailingly kind and helpful, putting others’ needs ahead of her own. Everyone loved her. Especially the folks at San Diego High, where she worked as principal’s secretary for many years. She basically ran the school – and did it with a smile on her face. She loved singing in the church choir with her best friend Pauline. She was a great Mom. She only got … [Read more...]
My high school friends joke that one of us had the boobs, another had the butt, and I had the belly. Countless sit-ups, diets and colon cleanses never succeeded in flattening that part of me, as my father enjoyed pointing out. In my 40s, I’d managed to drop some weight after strenuous dieting, and was looking forward to joining a dating site. His response? “You look exactly the … [Read more...]
Rachid Lazraq has been the proprietor of Rich Collection Italia in Shoreditch, East London, for over 30 years. The shop, which sells vintage Italian shoes, had a loyal following before online shopping and an aging clientele began to slow foot traffic. Business was down. Finally, Rachid put up a closing sale sign. But then his 25-year-old daughter Zineb, a London journalist, … [Read more...]
In a recent Facebook post, renowned healer, writer and teacher Denise Linn shared a message from nature that profoundly changed her outlook on life. It involved a tiny killdeer bird who’d laid four eggs next to Linn’s gravel driveway on the dry, desert landscape. “Every day,” said Linn, “I watched her faithfully tending her eggs. When the sun blazed overhead and temperatures … [Read more...]
Years ago, when Kim D’Eramo was sick with an auto-immune disorder, she felt a lot of fear every time her back or neck went into spasm or fatigue overwhelmed her. As this perceptive osteopathic doctor writes in her mind-bending book Be Your Own Healer: An Intuitive Doctor’s Guide to Activating Your Innate Abilities Through Mind-Body Medicine, “I made what was happening wrong. I … [Read more...]
