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The question remains: How do we deal with the mounting anger in America before it's too late and we have another national tragedy on our hands and souls? Are we mature enough as a country to have an honest discourse on the roots of anger in America today?

Mindful eating is important because it is a long-term approach to eating (versus dieting which is short term). Mindful eating is realistic. It doesn't cut out any foods from your diet. 

When you slow down, you think more clearly.

For many of us, finding the time to get in the recommended 30 minutes a day of exercise can seem daunting, but the Loyola Center for Fitness says that even when we are glued to our desk, we can still exercise.

One upside to the economic downturn is that it gives you a good excuse to review your finances and find ways to save time managing them. The more you ...

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...

As Senator Kennedy was finally laid to rest yesterday, the weight of his passing hit me much harder than I thought. I can feel the collective heartbre...

I can only describe this past week as computer hell. A Malware invasion that crashed my Wordpress site - yup. An Email program snafu that banished o...

"If it weren't for the fact that he died, I'd like to kill him! Can you imagine leaving us in this mess?" Amanda, a widow with three little ones und...

Whew. Things are heating up out there, aren't they? Temperatures are in full summer swelter, political tempers are sky high, and the hurricane season ...

Can you imagine yourself as a really, really old person? I'm talking really old, like 100 years or beyond? In fact it's not only possible you could ...

Ask yourself this question: what percentage of time do you spend communicating with friends in person, vs. IM, Tweet, email or text? Has it shrunk con...

Does life seem weirder and crazier than normal these days? Do you feel like you've fallen down a rabbit hole or gotten sucked into the twilight zone?...

Sometimes, it's just when you can least afford to take a break that it turns out to be the most necessary. If you are anything like me, you've heard ...

My declaration for what little time is left of summer is to spend less time sorting and more time being with family and friends, reading and lying out in sun.

Here's the truth. I was headed for a vacation this week, to give my back some more corrective rest after the great train mishap last week. But, as th...

Today was a four snooze alarm morning. Between the cold I caught from a fellow guest at a friend's dinner, deadlines for clients and editors looming o...

For the past six years, the daily headlines have been dominated by the war in Iraq and the political and social turmoil and widespread violence among ...

For those of you who follow my posts, I have been writing about vacations - and our attitudes about taking time off. Two weeks ago I explored America'...

Of all the words I've heard in the past few days, the ones that spoke most deeply to me were these aboard the returning Amtrak train to Seattle: "Is there a doctor on board?" Believe me, I was invested in the answer.

Once in a great while, there are moments worth watching on network television. Usually I miss them, since I'm not much of a TV fan. However, thanks ...

Despite the fact this summer has been filled with searing economic pains, deaths of too many, crazy weather disasters and money laundering scandals, w...

In 1956, George Miller wrote a paper entitled, "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two." He had discovered that people can only focus on five to ...

Gosh, my thumbs are tired. All that texting, typing and tweeting has given my digits an Olympic-size work out. With the past few weeks bringing on a ...

What if what frightens us silly is facing the notion that we've actually got to learn how to work collaboratively together as the Unknown presents itself, before its too late?