How To Shift Your State Of Mind This Holiday Season
The Gift of the Small. Regardless whether you take the Christmas story literally or not, symbolically it has something for everyone. Especially this year.
The Gift of the Small. Regardless whether you take the Christmas story literally or not, symbolically it has something for everyone. Especially this year.
Dr. Cara Barker | Posted 12.16.2009 | Living
New Forms, Old Process. Despite the news avalanche surrounding Tiger Woods, he's not the only one standing on shaky ground. It is, however, the unexpected places that lead us to the real.
Dr. Cara Barker | Posted 12.09.2009 | Living
With more length on the gift list than width in the wallet, tempers can flair, and it's a short trip from there down Blame Road. Holiday Season is at hand, with all that it brings. What do you hope yours brings?
Dr. Cara Barker | Posted 12.02.2009 | Living
The question is what result does criticizing leave in its wake? Since criticizing, complaining, and gossiping are anything but solution-oriented, they bring destruction, not solution.
Dr. Cara Barker | Posted 11.25.2009 | Living
Let's refocus. What if we practiced removing attention from what drains us, and choose to take proactive steps towards what revitalizes?
Joy Preble | Posted 11.23.2009 | Books
These are the humbling moments in the debut author journey. The ones that remind you to hang onto that day job.
Wednesday Martin | Posted 11.18.2009 | Books
The good news is that in addition to being an extremely non-bestselling author, I am also a concierge. The bad news is that I'm not very good at it.
Dr. Cara Barker | Posted 10.28.2009 | Living
Chronic, half-hearted living is associated with a syndrome called "Vital Exhaustion," which, turns out to be the predecessor to a heart attack.
Wednesday Martin | Posted 10.22.2009 | Books
Selling a book, to me at least, feels an awful lot like flirting, and also kind of hand-holding, and also like being in an very committed relationship with many, many people at once.
Dr. Cara Barker | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living
Many know how natural it is to go ballistic when we realize we've been duped. When we lose our way, it is all too easy to place hopes for happiness onto the outer world, for fame, money, things.
AP | By DAISY NGUYEN and FELICIA FONSECA | Posted 10.14.2009 | Home
LOS ANGELES - The man in charge of a spiritual retreat last week in Arizona that left two people dead after they were overcome in a sweat lodge said T...
Robbie Vorhaus | Posted 10.13.2009 | Books
In my column I wrote how to practice One Less, One More, including simple things like smiling, choosing positive over negative thoughts, no blame, believe in the invisible and miracles, be grateful and forgive.
Jesse Katz | Posted 10.09.2009 | Books
As much as I might fantasize about Junot Díaz or Mary Karr anointing my memoir the breakout book of 2009, how could I possibly expect them to even take note of its existence?
Dr. Cara Barker | Posted 10.07.2009 | Living
"...I am on my own journey/battle with forgiveness...and I find it very difficult. I feel as if I have reached a standstill. ...perhaps there is a d...
Paula Froelich | Posted 10.07.2009 | Books
I always dreamed of being a full-time novelist -- hell, who didn't? I mean, heck, you get to work from home, wear sweat pants, not have to blow out your frizzy hair or shave your legs.
AP | Posted 10.04.2009 | Books
LA PORTE CITY, Iowa — Peg Mullen, an author and former Iowa farm wife who hounded the U.S. military to find the truth about her son's death in V...
Christian Science Monitor | Matthew Shaer | Posted 12.01.2009 | Books
By now, you've probably heard the news. Sarah Palin -- prolific Facebook user, Twitter poet, and former Alaskan governor -- is writing a book. The tit...
Posted 12.01.2009 | Books
"It's the worst best story you'll ever read," said Daily Show host Jon Stewart last night about Jon Krakauer's new book, Where Men Win Glory. Krakaue...
Martha St Jean | Posted 11.23.2009 | World
"When [my first novel] was just published, people walked up to me and told me that someone who worked at their house is Haitian," Danticat said. "Now there are a number of people telling me that their doctor is Haitian."
Lauri Lyons | Posted 11.18.2009 | Entertainment
When it comes to women in hip-hop, don't call it a comeback. Women have been here for years.
Greg Mortimer | Posted 11.17.2009 | New York
Books written in and about the City of New York, its food, its maps; from Jonathan Lethem, Times restaurant critic William Grimes, and more.
Dr. Cara Barker | Posted 10.18.2009 | Living
Just putting the names Ted Kennedy, Michael Jackson, and Buddha in the same title might seem like quite a tossed salad. In a way, it's true. And, ye...
Lola Jaye | Posted 10.17.2009 | Style
Some believe if you keep your hair natural, you are more in touch with ones "Africanness," whilst those of us who use a relaxer are, let's just say, not that into it.
Matt Stewart | Posted 08.14.2009 | Media
Tweeting my novel provides the ultimate in easy sampling and information triage before purchase, the equivalent of watching a clip of a TV show before deciding to order the season on Netflix.
Naazish YarKhan | Posted 08.13.2009 | Media
In literary fiction, it all comes down to the writing. Ultimately, the book you're trying to sell to an agent/publisher has to stand on its own merit.
Dr. Cara Barker | Posted 12.23.2009 | Living