Month: May 2010
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Can You Be Spiritual if You Have Material “Stuff”?
“You cannot have a big house and lots of stuff and be spiritual,” the girl tells me. “You’re either materialistic or you’re spiritual but you can’t be both.” This is the eye-rolling wisdom of a girl who’s all of 22 and is, for the first time in her life, trying to make ends meet all…
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And Not a Day Goes By….
One of my friends worries that her version of God isn’t taking care of me, but my version of God is. There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t recognize that I am taken care of. Nowhere is that more obvious than after a near-miss with disaster. Many times, I’ve followed a path…
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Barbara Walters, Psychics, and Public Ridicule
I think maybe Barbara Walters owes “dangerous” psychic James Van Praagh an apology, but that’s mostly because—as an empath—I’ve worn Van Praagh’s shoes. I know what it’s like to be ridiculed for sending someone to get medical help. If you’re not familiar with the inciting incident, it happened on Barbara Walter’s TV show, The View,…
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What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?
When Maggie Shayne asked in her weekly blog, “What will you be when you grow up?” I laughed at her answers, partly because we have a lot of similarities. Maybe that’s why we’ve always gotten along so well, though. Many people who know me only as a writer ask, as with Maggie, “If you couldn’t…
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Writers, Rejection, and the Law of Attraction
The last book I wrote for Silhouette’s now-defunct Bombshell action-adventure line, with the fabulous Natashya Wilson as my editor. Loved this story, loved my editor. And yes, it’s very dark for anything Silhouette has ever produced. This article is from the upcoming book, 23 Ways I Screwed Up My Life with the Law of Attraction—and…
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A Pagan Point of View of the BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico
I stand with my toes in sugar-white sand and squint through bright sunrays at the turquoise-green waters. It’s eerily beautiful yet it feels more like a death watch for an old friend—not of natural causes but one who has been poisoned or slowly is suffocating to death as a result of someone else’s actions. It’s…
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Horrible Experiences: Just Making Room for the Good Stuff
Mom plays at the Bay Point Marriott (with camera phone) while Photographer Daughter shoots a wedding nearby. When you’re in the middle of a horrible experience, it’s hard to remind yourself that it’s making room for the good stuff coming that wouldn’t have a place to settle into your life otherwise. As much as I…
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Are You Resisting your Biggest Dreams?
Does it sometimes seem that the hardest thing to manifest is your biggest, most important dream? And isn’t it incredibly frustrating? From the Bookshelf Rite of Reckoning — a Southern witch returns home to secrets that won’t stay buried. Available direct from the author → The secret to manifesting is
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Excellent quote
My IT girl— and that’s IT as in Internet Technology, not as in Poor Little Rich Girl idiot Paris Hilton—sent me a terrific quote today. It just seems to fit this particular day rather well. “When one door closes, another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed…
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Squished Bread, Scrambled Eggs, and Mercury in Retrograde
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Passion to the Third Degree. Mercury’s in retrograde again. That comes too often, doesn’t it? Revisits and relooks and problems with communication, transportation, and computers. Some things have shifted around this past week. It reminds me of throwing groceries in the back of the car and getting home…
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Two Reasons: #2. Eliminate to Release
I’m troubled about something but really have no one I can discuss it with. Or at least, no one I feel comfortable discussing it with. I tried in earnest but discovered I was talking to absolutely the wrong person. It made me realize that it was time to release some things I’d been holding onto…
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Two Reasons: #1. Eliminate to Liberate
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Passion to the Third Degree. You cannot imagine how much email I get every day. Filters do little to no good or I lose sales. Part of the problem is that one of my private email addresses has been spread all over the planet by a handful of…
