I Took Ashwagandha For One Year, Here’s What Happened I trust real-life experience over packaged advice. I also know how to deep-dive a subject like the journalist I was trained to be. All trails led me to what some call the most revered herb on the planet: Indian Ginseng, or Ashwagandha. To the untrained eye, it’s just an evergreen shrub in […]
Take a Picture Before and While Doing This… Over the ages, few human desires can compete with the yearning to be more beautiful. Go to a big-box store and look at the aisle devoted to beauty, or should I say look at the aisles. And it’s not just women, men are more tuned into this yearning than most of us would […]
Oh, the Humanity! I’ll just paint a picture, based on real scenes, without judgement. Pregnant bellies are everywhere. Smiles abound. But … it’s complicated. A nicely dressed woman stumbles out of a bar and collapses on the sidewalk. Her friends rush to help her as she gets back up laughing uproariously. Restaurants can’t find enough people to serve the throngs of […]
We Were Willing to Be the Guinea Pigs As Americans go back to concerts, restaurants and each other, we have one group to thank: those who took the sting. While I respect those not comfortable with the vaccine, just please stop spreading fake news about it. I always trust real life experience over someone’s arrangement of words. I got jabbed […]
Traditional Advice Just Wasn’t Working We all know the value of a day, one person’s 24 hours can inspire the world while most of us barely inspire a yawn. We all know we have these amazing brains full of unused potential. Heck, some of us even believe we have these cosmic souls with potential beyond imagination. We see and feel the […]
If You Go, You’ve Got to Go All the Way First, excuse me for saying “woke,” which Gen Z is now calling a dead term, but it gets the point across, which is the point. Before Woke So before becoming more conscious, you might do and say random unfiltered s*** and not think twice about those actions or deeds (or even […]
What Goes Down, Sometimes Comes Up Higher In the grip of the pandemic, many of us looked to the heavens and cast a wish to do things differently if we should make it through this dark hour. We’d say “yes” more to people, to challenges, to artistic expression, to going for our dreams. Now, starting in America, as vaccines squelch the […]
But Beware: the Cat May Not Leave You Alone Growing up, my family had rambunctious cats who were free to roam and fully clawed, ready to fight other cats, a raccoon, or bring back a prized, dead mouse. As a young child, I didn’t question it. That’s just how things were. Yet, they’d come home after a wild night doing crazy […]
4 Tricks I Use to Stay Glowed Up We all probably heard the phrase that you can be your best friend or worst enemy. Well, here’s some tricks for the inner friend. Blue Delight First, imagine whatever it is bothering or scaring you… Then, imagine it transforming to a blue puff of smoke and blowing away in the wind. Blue […]
Know This Or Risk Being “Cheugy” While procrastinating by reading an article about how not to procrastinate, I wondered if Gen Z would find that “meta,” which means self-reflective, like the definition of the word definition. That got me thinking about how language evolves like fashion. Remember when people started saying “sick” to mean cool, and before that “dope,” and before […]