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The ChiRunning Book and DVD by marathon runner Danny Dreyer has helped thousands of beginning runners, seasoned marathoners and triathletes improve their game and now it has been updated with new pertinent information. ChiRunning combines the inner focus and flow of T’ai Chi with the healthfulness and energy of running to create a new running [...]

I’ve always been fascinated by sensory deprivation tanks. Ever since my days of reading material written by Carlos Castineda, finding peyote growing along a main downtown street in Albany, New York and hanging out with a guy who thought he could visit the libraries of Venus anytime he pleased (yes, the planet).
But that’s another story.
Do [...]

Recently, I wrote a post proclaiming my preference for drinking water right from the tap.  Where I live, the tap water tastes great, actually! It’s sweet and fresh.
Some may take exception to drinking tap water – many people do, in fact – and drink bottled water instead. It’s been a debate for some time.
Apparently the [...]

For me, drinking water is a pleasure.  It wasn’t always this way, though.
As a youngster living in Connecticut, water from our faucet tasted like a mouthful of minerals. I didn’t like it at all. Never asked to drink it. Enjoyed fruit juice and milk, more likely.
I did like my diet soda. I remember chocolate diet [...]

My first trip beyond the Mississippi was a visit  to Canyonlands National Park in Moab, Utah. I camped there with my boyfriend for two weeks .
I was taken by all things west: the vistas, the sense of distance, the deep blue sky, the dry air that cooled in the shade, even though it was 100 [...]

Wow. The beginning of July. You know what that means?
A bounty of flavorful, locally grown produce – and more – at the farmers market.
“Good eats,” says Alton Brown, star of the Food Network show of the same title.
Sweet corn. Heirloom tomatoes. Zucchini. Salad greens, peppers and fresh herbs. In Idaho, where I’m living right now, [...]

I’ve been thinking about my skin lately. I’m about to finish all the products in my skin care regimen and I’m thinking my skin needs a change.
As it usually happens when I’m thinking about something, an email about healthy skin showed up in my mailbox  from Natural News (the Law of Attraction?!).
Besides giving tips for [...]

Recently ABC World News ran a story about the benefits of red yeast rice in reducing cholesterol levels. The report explains some Asian countries use it as a food coloring as well as an herbal medicine.
It’s always interesting to me how a remedy used for more than 1,000 years is “re-discovered” and used in today’s [...]

A friend of mine threw caution to the wind yesterday and got on a plane headed to Spain and Morocco.
For her, these past few years have been a whirlwind of change (haven’t they been for most of us?). She quit her job, her father passed away, she bought a house and moved away … she’s [...]

In the morning, I can hear the violin.
The weather is nice now, and all the house windows are open. So, I can hear someone playing the violin. The music is coming from across the golf course in my back yard.
It lasts for a little while, maybe 20 minutes tops. Drifting up and down the sixteenth [...]