I recently spent a weekend with Marianne Williamson .  Well, with her and about 500 other women.  It was an amazing, educational and transformative experience called Sister Giant, designed to re-connect us with our female power and to find ways to apply it in the world. 
Of course, this wonderful yin force we are governed by [...]

January 2nd is my favorite day of the year.  I mean, I don’t want to get all scroogey about it, but personally, I find all the buy-the-perfect-present pressure a little much.  I have a hard time keeping the kitchen clean, let alone organizing an orgasmic cadeau for every special person in my life.  Forget wrapping [...]

So yeah, I’m basically a movie star now.  No biggie.  It feels fine.  I don’t have paparazzi at my doorstep (yet)… I haven’t signed an autograph (yet)… and my apartment still awaits its ‘Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous’ renovation, but hey, those are just details.
I was asked by some friends to play a part [...]

To tell the truth, my life is already half-vacation.  As a self-employed person, I pretty much make my own rules, and as a hypnotherapist, I have a tendency to go DEEP into relaxation, especially at work!  But this semi-retirement has a flipside; while my regular life might seem relaxed to many, I don’t really know [...]

First, some blagging.  That’s blogging x bragging.  As a self-employed person, please indulge me: 
My first blag is that The Kind Diet, by Alicia Silverstone  (co-written by Yours Truly) hit the New York Times Bestsellers List in the category of Hardcover Advice this past week.  Yaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!  Click here to get your copy and ten more [...]

So, my niece finally called.  She took her time, busting a hole in the amniotic sac first, and giving us almost a full day to assemble ourselves before kicking off some contractions.  All in all, it was a safe, healthy, un-medicated birth which brought my newest niece into the world.  Yay!
But even the easiest birth [...]

I love saying stuff like "so I was in Vegas the other day…".  Sounds so Rat Pack, so Entourage, so The Hangover.  And I was actually in Vegas the other day, after a couple of friends of mine, plus one dog, piled into my car and decided to drive to Joshua Tree, which looks like [...]

As kids, my sister and I would spend every other weekend with our Dad.  Not the greatest cook, he would take us to various diners and other eateries for Saturday breakfast.  Invariably, Dad would order half a  grapefruit, and I remember being hypnotized by his precise slicing around the rim of the fruit and down [...]

This is my niece.  She doesn’t always look this squinchy, but sometimes life just makes you squinch!  Maybe she’s been listening to my audiobook.
I’m all about iceberg lettuce these days.  I know, I know… it’s a throwback to salads from the 70s, and maybe that’s why I’m so attracted to it.  Just gimme a summer [...]

So I bought this book about farts for my sister.  It’s got a little battery-operated box on it that contains ten fart sounds.  She’s a full-grown woman, but has this really infantile love of farts which I’ve never understood, but lovingly endured.  I AM TOO MATURE FOR THAT!!  But then, I was listening to aforementioned [...]