I was scheduled to meet Baxter Bussey, the world's oldest therapy dog who at 19.5 years strong was still working amidst his advanced age and arthritic pain twice to three times weekly at the San Diego Hospice and Institute for Pallative Medicine. That meeting never happened as Baxter died the...

A softer, gentler form of yoga seems to be quietly on the rise.

From Los Angeles to London, so-called yin yoga is increasingly being taught at studio classes and yoga retreats, not to mention via books and DVDs.

The power or "yang-styled" yoga forms so popular in the West --...

Heal The World/Make It A Better Place/For You And For Me/And The Entire Human Race - Michael Jackson

Let's face it, millions of words will be printed and spoken about Michael Jackson in the months and years to come, about his death, his pyrotechnic life and all the things that...

Blessed are the flexible for they shall not bend out of shape. - Anonymous

Soft, limber, plied limbs and bodies are in a much more relaxed state than tense, tight, and rigid muscles, would you agree?

Why then do so few people take the time to limber up and stretch...

For those who frequently fly, and who also have delicate sleep cycles, jet lag is trouble. As with everything involving sleep, some people are more affected than others, but it's a pretty good guess that if you have sleep troubles at home, jet lag will only exacerbate them.

As you...

Manners have always had their thoughtful admirers, along with their merely numerous ones. After all, manners -- good ones -- help grease life's highways. Parents teaching their children manners was once considered tantamount to putting shoes on their feet.

But given 40-odd years worth of toxicological reduced decorum -- what...

The following article was originally published in The Los Angeles Times Magazine in May 1999. All of the survivors who tell their story below have since died.

While the descendants wait for the full acknowledgment of this Genocide (the first in the 20th Century) by the Turkish government, everyone...

Note: This blogpost starts a monthly column called Voice of the Voiceless: Heroes Among Us -- featuring an everyday person who sees a problem and jumps in to fix it, without waiting for someone else to tackle the job.

Feng Shui is a complex, 3,000-year-old Chinese philosophy based on the art of placement, harmony, balance, and the fundamental principle that cosmic energy (chi) unites all universal matter. In Feng Shui's energy system, nothing happens without direct consequence to something else; free-flowing chi that circulates smoothly has positive influence on...

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. - Dr. William Dement

Many restless sleepers have highly active dream lives. Nightmares are great psychic teachers, but also big obstacles to restful sleep. And I know-- nightmares and vivid...

My silent treatments started 15 years ago. Stressed out, worn out and wigged out, I wanted out - of town, that is. But I was in no shape to make travel plans, so a friend of mine took one look at me and, over my feeble protestations, signed me up...

When I am alone, I can sleep crossway in a bed without an argument. - Zsa Zsa Gabor

Do you know what position you regularly take up in bed when you drop off to sleep? According to veteran sleep researcher, Dr. Samuel Dunkell, the position you...

The family of Martin Luther King has survived a great deal since the following 2004 interview took place in Atlanta. Coretta King had moved from her longtime Atlanta home (where she and Dr. King raised their children) and in August 2005 suffered a heart attack and stroke; she died in...

We've all heard the adage if a butterfly flaps its wings in Hong Kong, there's a hurricane in Manhattan. Today, quantum physics says yes, the world is kept spinning by an unending energy spiral intermingled and never lost.

At the same time, as a sleep counselor women often ask...