Month: February 2012
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Health: Renew Life’s Total Body Rapid Cleanse Review and Tips, Day 2 of 7
This is Day 2 of this product review series on Renew Life’s Total Body Rapid Cleanse. Day 2 Tips: The morning and evening fiber drink can be pretty nasty if you toss one scoop of fiber-powder into a glass of cold water. Here’s a better way: Put 1 scoop of fiber into a glass. Take…
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Tests of Obedience: Another “Christian” Concept that Still Plagues Me
Maybe it was too many Southern Baptist ministers who preached that women must “submit” and “obey” their husbands. Maybe it was having big brothers so much older than me who would tickle-torture me if I didn’t do comply with their bellowed orders to “Obey me!” In any case, something turned me against the idea of…
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Health: Renew Life’s Total Body Rapid Cleanse Review and Tips, Day 1 of 7
Okay, I promise this review isn’t about poop! Hmmm, maybe a little, but that’s just one of the results some people look for when they “do a cleanse.” Since I write quite a bit about health products as part of my mind-body-spirit news and this is the first time I’ve tried one of these quickie…
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Can Empaths Be Cruel? The Science of Evil and Its Effect on What I’m Writing
I’m glad I didn’t read Simon Baron-Cohen’s The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty before I began writing The Secret Lives of Librarians. Not that it’s a bad book. If I’d done more academic research into empathy, narcissism, and evil before beginning my novel, I might have tried to fit Lilah…
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Discrimination Against Pagan Religions in the Federal Workplace, and some Good News
Here I am in the heart of the Bible Belt. You can’t throw a stick without doing it in Jesus’ name. This is still the area of the country where you meet someone for the first time and they have 2 immediate questions: 1. What’s your name? 2. Which church do you belong to? One…
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Health: Relief for Painful Knees
It’s been 15 years since I’ve worn heels. In 2004, upon ordering me to physical therapy just to be able to walk without tears, my physician declared that I’d be a “flats girl” for the rest of my life. My dates have seen me wear high heels only when I’m sitting and swinging legs and…
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Different Directions: 3 Experiments for your Circle-Casting
As you may have figured out already, I like to experiment. Experimenting means not becoming stagnant in my spiritual practice. It means learning more, going deeper, taking my connection to Deity one step higher. Here are 3 ideas for experimenting with the standard “Four Directions” to see if you get a better result, a closer…
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Instead of Candle Spells, Try…a Cup of Tea
Aren’t those all-day candle spells great? If you can stay home with it all day, which I can’t. Or if you can burn a candle at work, which in my case is highly frowned upon at my workplace. So here’s an alternative I tested out and found it worked quite delightfully. Not fire magick but…
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How to Eat Spinach? Drink It!
Okay, I cannot eat spinach! No matter how it’s cooked or tossed in a salad, I just cannot do it. But…I’ve found that I can drink it. I’ve started throwing a handful or two of fresh spinach into my protein shakes. Once I turn on the blender, I don’t even taste the spinach in the…
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Competitive Spirituality
When I was growing up in a Southern Baptist church, we called it “holier than thou.” These were the people who were quick to let others know that they had a better, closer relationship to Jesus than the other church members. Sorta like Christian name-droppers: “I was just talking to Jesus, and He told me…
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Channeling Insights: Signs of the Real Deal
Most people hear the term channeling and immediately think eitherfraudor nutcase. Or maybe both. Sometimes they think possession, which is probably the scariest impression. Channeling, from what I’ve observed, is a way of tapping into deeper insights, whether the person doing the channeling interprets them as being from the Higher Self, a dark but highly…
