I recently bought one of Jack Lalanne's juicers because I grew up watching my mother exercise to Jack Lalanne, and there was never a minute when my mother wasn't fit and trim with glowing skin looking fabulous!

So, I approached my Jack LaLanne juicer with a certain reverence. I...

Hawaii is supposed to have more millionaires than any other state and yet you can never find them! Because everyone is in aloha attire and looks so casual, it's impossible to spot them. I can tell you where they hang out and how to hang out at their haunts and...

You want to have the time of your life on your vacation with no hassles -- or at least as few as possible -- and the last thing you need is a robbery or theft. So with that in mind, I thought I would share some tips and actual crime...

I enjoyed an extended Cote D'Azur cruise that used to be "The French Riviera Cruise." The luxury ship is the Seabourn Legend and because it carries just 200 passengers it can navigate into some equally small ports like Collioure where Matisse painted. (These smaller-sized ships will no longer be built...

Roots. We all have them. I have some pretty colorful ones. Generals. Admirals. Supreme Court Justices. William Tecumseh Sherman. John Knox. Fighters, all. Especially the last one who became the most wanted man by the Vatican. He carried a double-handled sword and, as a Reformationist, started the Presbyterian Church of...

"Make new friends; keep the old; one is silver and the other is gold."

These are the words to a song I learned as a child one summer at camp, but I've never forgotten them because I think they are wise ones. Friends are there for you in rough weather,...

I used to pride myself on being laser-beam focused on whatever task lay before me. But when you start finding socks in the refrigerator and the milk carton in your kid's chest of drawers, it's time to really focus. Pouring cat litter into the bath instead of Epson salts can...

"Flattery will get you everywhere," or so the saying goes. I admit that flattery works on me! I am a sucker for a compliment. Tell me that my car is clean and I beam! So I'm not sure what to think when someone recently told me that I had "good...

All set to make a phone call, I reached for my iPhone and it wasn't there! It was gone! M.I.A! I gave it a day to turn up but it never turned up, down, or sideways. The following day I went to the Apple store and replaced it with an...

I bumped into Gerard Butler two nights in a row -- first at a Producers Guild screening of his new movie, Machine Gun Preacher, and then again at a charity fundraiser and the premiere of it. What a film! What an actor! He is engaging and charming and at the...

As a child, I told my mother that I wanted to take the "beautiful woman" class at the gym. She asked me what I meant, and I told her that it was the class where all the women who came out of it were beautiful; they all glowed. It turns...

Water works on me To bring my heart serenity. It melts me weightless. -Patricia Rust

There's much that can be said about water -- we're made mostly of it. It gives life, for without it, life cannot exist. It can be more expensive than gasoline, and it's beautiful as...

Learning how to realize our hopes and dreams can come about in the darndest ways, and I would like to thank my niece for teaching me, with her heart filled with grace and poise.

I've had my 16-year-old niece with me for the past week and a half, and the...

We all have little stirrings on the inside, but do we really listen to them? Do we pay attention to them? Most likely when you have a chance to get away from the hustle and bustle of city life and get into nature, then when you hear the snap of...

Spiritual wisdom can best be imparted from the heart. I could speak from having my Ph.D., life experience or my recent week's stay at The Golden Door, but not like from my heart, where the highest truth will always prevail.

After spending a week at The Golden Door in classes...

Aloha may mean hi, hello, love, but nothing translates the warm grand groundswell of emotion felt when you say "aloha" or express it in some form or another. It's like a mini-orgasm of the heart. Maybe it's felt in Israel when one says shalom, but I can't vouch for that...

Step Away From the Shoulds!

Should? Did I hear you say the word "should!" I really should lose weight, I really should wait until I re-style my hair before I talk to that girl, guy, put in a skylight, record my expenses, or whatever you wish to plug in here....

The world has gone insane! Japan's tsunami and earthquake moved the island nation seven inches, an NYC mayoral candidate doesn't sext his pregnant wife but seems to have sexted every other woman in the Big Apple, a Los Angeles freeway is about to close in the middle of summer and...