On Monday afternoon,   I sat in a long tube listening to jazz over headphones while my knee went through being scanned a zillion times.    I picked up the test results on Tue. afternoon and had them interpreted for me by my friend Carmen who's a rehab med doc and my other friend Sharon,  a chiropractor.     Both concurred that the test indicated I ( Read more... )

This is SO me ! Minus the pot smoking ... but back in the day ....

Hippie
You are 0% Rational, 71% Extroverted, 28% Brutal, and 42% Arrogant.

You are the Hippie! Characterized by a strong sense of extroversion, irrationality, gentleness, and humility, you no doubt frolic through fields preaching peace and love to all! You are probably ( Read more... )

One of my regularly visited places on the internet is Jan Spiller's website (www.janspiller.com); she also writes amazing books about astrology from a spiritual perspective. One of the practices I've been following based on her books is the idea of making wishes for the New Moon. Here are her guidelines for the upcoming New Moon ( Read more... )

Lava
~ 62% Water ~ 55% Wind ~ 66% Earth ~ 66% Fire ~

You and me and everyone

throwing fire at the sun

Your colours are a warm orange and fiery red. You are likely energetic, ambitious, progressive and in charge of yourself. However, you may sometimes appear insensitive or flustered. Wearing a Crysocolla helps enhance tranquillity, patience, and ( Read more... )

A couple days ago, a friend of ours approaches my partner Bern to be a chaperone for a service project she's doing with high school kids in Jamaica -- and it turns out that she is going to do it, which is really cool. What deterred her from saying "yes" immediately, is the fact that she'll be away for my birthday. The funny thing is, I wasn't ( Read more... )

A couple of things are goin' on which are related to some of previous posts of the past couple weeks,   so I figured I'd keep y'all informed of what's been happenin' ....

- my client who had the mastectomy came through with flying colors !    I saw her 2 days ago and she is in such a good place emotionally and physically and she feels so relieved ( Read more... )

A quick little story which was a major boost to my self-esteem, particularly as my birthday approaches in a couple of weeks and I will turn a ripe 43 ( Read more... )

Just got an email from my tattoo artist extraordinaire, Stacy, and we have a date scheduled for my Hawaii-themed tattoo -- June 18 to begin the outline (will be my largest one to date) and then we'll set another date to fill in the colors, which are going to be really rich and varied. I'm sooooo thrilled !!!!!

( The sketch for the tattoo )

I've spent the bulk of my morning and early afternoon with a most courageous woman. She is a therapy client of mine, with an incredibly painful history who used to experience such significant depression that she would become selectively mute because that was the only way she could survive the inexplicable depths of her misery. She has a ( Read more... )

I have to really have something "come to me"  before I make the all-important decision about what I will have tattooed on me.   My very first one,  which I got when I turned 30,  are these tiny little musical notes  (to represent my love of music) on my upper right thigh.   It's a pretty "lame" tattoo in comparison to my others,  but hey,  it was ( Read more... )