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You may have noticed something in your office this week.  Small boxes of baked goods have found their way into break rooms across the country.  That's right.  It's Girl Scout Cookie time. My problem?  Candy and baked goods are lik...

Sacramento, will you please do me a favor? Honk at red light runners. Obviously the possibility of a stiff fine won't deter most people, so we've got to resort to peer pressure. Hardly anyone in this town honks. I drove home one night and saw 5 dif...

Royal Proclamation "Let it be known from this day forward that I haveconceived, executed, developed, pioneered,motivated and created an extraordinary life and I will speak about myself in a positive way fromthis moment on because I am worth it. I give youpermission to admire me even as I take time every day to admire myself. So sayeth the Queen." *Ch. 4...

"By taking the lid off the unconscious, we can be guided by its knowledge," says Bernie Siegel, in an article titled Making the Invisible Visible--How dreams and drawings reveal the unknown and invisible.  Siegel, a self-described Jungian ...

There are certain forms of comedy that are just tired. The whole "take my wife, please" stuff was funny 50 years ago, but hasn't been since. Women do that stuff too about their husbands/boyfriends. It's frustrating to someone who is single to hear a...

Today I realized that purses are metaphors for relationships. There's not a woman around who has had a purse and thought, "I really hate this thing." Back when you bought the purse though, you were excited about it. The newness, the novelty, the u...

Today was a delightful day. My daughter Rebecca, to be wed in June was in need of some Motherly advice, or perhaps just support as she shopped for her underpinnings. You know the lovelies that go under the wedding dress, but that are just as important...

 Advanced Style by Ari Seth Cohen is a fun and inspiring blog I recently discovered. It has upbeat posts full of lovely ladies and gentlemen who have embraced their later years with pizazz. All these ladies appear to wake up with a determination t...

After traversing the airport trying to get boarding documents, I gratefully bypassed the backed-up security line in favor of the frequent flier "fly-by" lane. Believe me, I and my fellow short-line standers were immediately popular with the restless cr...

Everyone knows that alcohol, in the right amount, is truth serum, right? I don't necessarily mean they will spill state secrets.  They might, but if you want to see a person's true colors? Get them drunk. I'm not kidding. If you have any kind ...