My chest was to his back. My right leg was thrown over his right hip. At first he made a smacking noise with his lips, as if a cow was chewing his cud beside me. I thought I heard him ask for something. I might have just been falling to...

If you think age and wisdom doesn't shift perception and priorities, think again.

I remember first hearing the following phrase when I was in my early twenties: "Women give sex to get love. Men give love to get sex." Back then I didn't agree or disagree with this concept....

She's one of the celebrities I actually wrote to before moving to Los Angeles. A friend of a friend worked for her production company. I never heard a word back from her office.

She's one of those I've admired from afar, never seeing her in public before. I've watched...

Anyone can say anything. Anyone can come up with a line. With a gift bag gab of wisdom, knowledge and confidence, someone can really cover the world and be quite deceptive. There are those that do it. They make it bad for the rest.

I woke up this morning, full...

FIRE

Nacho, the Argentinian polo player, now famous as the handsome hunk on Ralph Lauren's Polo ads, told Oprah that when he rides he becomes one with the horse. Being that he changes horses eight times during a match, that's a lot of effort at merging together with another in...

I have a persecution complex. I'm afraid of speaking my truth. I don't believe in mainstream. I'm not impressed with fluff or fun or fanfare. I don't care about fashion. I won't dye my hair in order to be more attractive, more noticeable. I also won't wear my hair long...

Last night on Nightline John Berman interviewed a NYC meat expert and ate three hamburgers before 2pm. In the interview, John Berman hinted at the "nutritional and environmental outrage that seems to be popping up the past few years about burger makers and their practices."

Recently I spoke with a geologist/conservation consultant who took all his money out of the stock market in 2005 and believes that the stocks will start sliding again in October and go another 60% down. This seriously frightened me. Almost haunted me with a daily bite since I heard it,...

In today's culture we always hear that there is too much waste going into our landfills, and little we care to keep for very long. Music changes every minute. Fashion, whether affordable or not, keeps changing as is the custom. Movies might keep telling the same stories, but for many...

As a reticent child, I always tested the water before jumping in. As a young girl, I'd purposefully alter my looks in some way in order not to compete with other girls for boys. As a Berkeley undergrad I chose political science because I thought I'd have to write more...

I was in a spinning class again. I'd stayed out of the classes for about five months when a teacher was particularly snarky about the volume control. I'd put my hands up to my ears, motioning that the noise level was too loud. Her reply? "I don't read sign language."...

In today's New York Times, Maureen Dowd talks about Cheney and torture. She says:

"I used to agree with President Obama, that it was better to keep moving and focus on our myriad problems than wallow in the darkness of the past. But now I want a full accounting. I...

We use our bodies something fierce. We demand they work long hours with little sleep. We expect them to walk us where we need to go, release waste and huge amounts of toxicity (I'm not talking about recreational toxicity, but more along the lines of the air we breathe, the...

There are miracles in everyday interactions. Often, when I least expect it, a person I come into contact with has incredibly special significance for me. When I'm paying attention, when I'm listening, when my feelers are up and out, wondrous unexpected moments unfold before my very eyes.

After spinning, I...

In certain cultures people thrive on conformity. A party line is formulated and chosen. Citizens are expected to enunciate and articulate the party line. For some this is a comfort, to follow what is prescribed and expected. It takes the choice out of one's own hands. Especially easy if one...