22 Sep 2013
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Float

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  When I get ready to go out on the town I usually turn up the volume on some Buddhist teachings. No, it's not Kanye but it's something.   I was listening to Pema Chodron tonight from her book "Coming Closer to Ourselves."   She made this very cool point that I hadn't thought of before.   She says: "Life is just a succession of agreeable and disagreeable. Over and over and over again." It's a profound thought. Life isn't a straight line. Life isn't a road you pick for yourself. Life isn't even a highway even thought that's  a great fucking song. Life is a succession of agreeable and disagreeable. Over and over and over again. Life goes up…
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25 Jun 2013
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The Vegas Vanity Lesson

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    It was Saturday night. The big night. I was with 12 girls attending my best friend and her partner's bachelorette weekend in Vegas. We were all dressed up in our sluttiest and most glitterful outfits. The heels were too high and the make up was too thick and it was perfect. I understood we were quite a scene. 12 gorgeous girls walking in a group, filled with confidence and several Tito’s vodka shots. Men were staring. Women were staring. Even lonely Black Jack dealers were staring. And then at one point---just as we were about to walk into our restaurant. I started hearing it. Applause. I was in the back of the group since I walk like a…
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10 Dec 2012
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The Secret-Sauce to Survival

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    As most of you know, I'm not a the adventuresome sort. In fact, I am a bit of a homebody. Or as my friends and family sometimes call me--a sad, sad, reclusive hermit. However, I do enjoy the idea of adventure and I find myself absorbing any kind of extreme survival stories, books, TV shows or documentaries I can get my hands on. My latest read was a terrific book called "Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies and Why" by Laurence Gonzalez. I highly recommend it. Gonzalez takes you through a myriad of AMAZING survival stories and explains why certain people live and certain people die.  Turns out, it has nothing to do with age or gender or…
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01 Jul 2011
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11 Things To Do When You’re Sick Of Feeling Heartbroken

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1) Get deep into a dramatic TV series on DVD. I’m talking The Wire, Dexter, Homicide etc. You need to have intense characters to bond with and twisting plots to gasp at. Pick something with three seasons or longer depending on how lonely you are. 2) Crosswords. They are time consuming and you look smart doing them at Starbucks. Extra points if you subscribe to a newspaper to get your crosswords since this gives you a little something to look forward to every morning. 3) Knitting. I know. Nerd Alert. But the skill is very easy to pick up and it is very meditative. The accomplishment of creating something, even a knotted scarf will give you a boost of self…
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24 Jun 2011
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You have exactly 90 seconds

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“I define responsibility as the ability to choose how we respond to stimulation…Although there are certain limbic system programs that can be triggered automatically, it takes less than 90 SECONDS for one of these programs to be triggered, surge through our body, and then be completely flushed out of our blood stream…If, however, I remain angry after those 90 seconds have passed then it is because I have chosen to let that circuit continue to run.” —-“My Stroke of Insight” by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor. If you didn’t know, Dr. Jill Taylor is a one of the top brain anatomists in the country. In 1996 she famously suffered a severe stroke at the young age of 37 leaving her temporarily,…
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