As I watched the entire "A New Earth Webinar" with Oprah and Eckhart Tolle, I often thought of the similarities between Tolle and Byron Katie. They were both clinically depressed before their parallel awakenings which changed both of them forever. For ...

The October 6, 2008 Nursing Spectrum Magazine has a great fear inducing headline. It reads: "Cancer Risk On The Night Shift" with a white cup filled with coffee directly below the headline. The coffee looks cold, which certainly would be true to life for ...

When does customer service equate good down home hospitality? The answer to this question is: all the time without exception. Baby Boomers know something about hospitality, because we were raised pre-computer, pre e-mail, pre-cell phone technologies...

Morton Mintz sat on our panel for "Guaranteed Health Care For All," a Forum that Progressives For Pennsylvania organized 9/18/08. He is a media critic, freelance journalist at this point in his long and illustrious (sixty year) career. He was a reporte...

I predict that Michael Moore's new movie, "Slacker," will lay the groundwork for an Obama/Biden Presidency. I am a great fan of Michael Moore. The movie, "SiCKO" changed my life. It did this by inspiring me to become a Community Activist/Organizer f...

As a result of my involvement with the passage of HB 1660 here in Pennsylvania, I have learned many things. The burden that the health insurance companies place on employers is one of them. The fact that in five years, if Single Payer is not enacted...

The Reverend Sandra L. Straus spoke at our Single Payer, Guaranteed Healthcare For All Forum one week ago. I've heard her speak several times and we have worked together on several Single Payer functions over the last few years. She gave me the copy...

Last Thursday, September 18, 2008, Progressives For Pennsylvania held our second forum on the health care crisis in Pennsylvania. This time, the focus was on passing Pennsylvania's HB 1660 and SB 300, both of which would provide health care to all Pennsyl...

I've read most of Thich Nhat Hahn's books. He is the Vietnamese Buddhist Monk who was banned from ever going back to his country because of his stand against the Vietnamese War. This latest book, "The Art of Power," written in Thich's 90th decade, is h...

My friend Cliff saw Eckhart Tolle on the Oprah Winfrey Show, bought "A New Earth," written by Tolle, and read every word. About two months later, he stopped for coffee on his way to work, stepped off a curb, and fell on the pavement face first. His ...

The book, "Angels In The ER," by Robert D. Lesslie, was suggested by Joan Adams, Squidoo Lens maker and author of "Banish The Blahs" and "10 X 10." Joan recently chose Dr. Lesslie to be her doctor because of his willingness to listen, his kindness and ...

Friend Bull Frog has come to live with us in the basement. This is the height of cricket season, and crickets live in abundance here on Blue Heron Farm. Bull Froggy loves crickets. S/he lives under an under water rock. When we plop the cricket...

I just saved a Bull Frog in the cistern we are restoring in our 100 year old barn. She is a beautiful creature and has lived there for for perhaps more than a year. But since we are about to do some heavy duty construction on the barn's foundation, I need...

I have a pain in my brain, it seems, near my left temple. The pain surfaced last night as my Labor and Delivery unit got busier and busier. I started out the night with a headache which my nursing colleague soothed away with the Mechano treatment I teach....

I was tidying up the books beside our bed recently and saw a book my husband Tom was reading: "The Sociopath Next Door" by Martha Stoudt, Ph.D. I remembered reading that book several years ago during a particularly traumatic time I was experiencing wit...