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Be A Channel For Transformation

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... Read >

Lessons Your Pain Can Teach

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.... Read >

Dealing With Workplace Sociopaths

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... Read >

We Can Learn From Unseen Forces

The moment you think you have gone as far as you can in the pursuit of spiritual enlightenment, a great mystery presents itself and allows the unanswered questions of life to expand. Such a moment happened to me on the way to work the other night. I am... Read >

Team Work on Night Shift

Working the night shift, as I have, has been a wonderful exercise in letting go of Circadian Rhythms and creating my own rhythm. By changing my perspective in this way, the night has become my familiar, a kind of safe haven in the routine of life. Nig... Read >

Love Is Z Point

One of my fellow Abundant Babe Master Mind Members offered to do a Z point session with me by telephone last week. Her name is Laura Whitelaw, EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) and soon to be Z point practitioner and author of "Resume Writing Strategies R... Read >

Make Happiness A Way Of Life!!

I was happy to attend the teleinterview of Joan Adams and Betty De Lorme 7/8/08. Charlie Leetham did an expert job in interviewing these two energetic ladies, whose laughter and love lit up the telephone lines and cellular phone towers all across the glob... Read >

The Essence Of Pray Rain Journaling

I recently attended a teleconference with Jeannette Maw and a colleague of hers she called the Queen of Love!! Jeannette was discussing her Electronic Book "Miracles of Pray Rain Journaling." The call was a question and answer session about the Pray Ra... Read >

Memories In Boxes 20 Years Later

As mentioned in the last article/blog entry, I am in the process of cleaning out my barn and picking through papers from the 1970's, 1980's and early 1990's. I came across a newspaper clipping of a story that caught my interest, followed by a letter to... Read >

Therapeutic Touch Revisited Ten Years Later

I was cleaning the barn today, a job that will take at least several days. I kept finding things I totally forgot about, like an old green urn that used to sit in the corner of the living room in the old home stead, which housed a large wooden protractor ... Read >

Pennsylvania: On The Forefront Of Single Payer Health Delivery

Pennsylvania is on the threshold of breaking new ground because of her Single Payer Universal Health Care initiative, HB 1660 and SB 300, which, if passed, will make health care available to every Pennsylvanian. Health Care For All PA is taking this in... Read >

Leaving The Democratic Party

The Democratic National Committee told us over the weekend of May 31, 2008 that our votes do not matter. People were stripped of their votes by half in Florida and four delegates were stolen from Hillary and given to Barak Obama in Michican. When Jimmy... Read >

Boycotting MSNBC and Affiliates

My grandmother was a suffragette. And today is her birthday. She'd be 115 today. Her name was Amelia Loving. I honor her memory this election season by raising my own consciousness regarding sexism in our society, especially rearing up now in the... Read >

Nurses and PTSD

Posttraumatic stress disorder(PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that can develop after exposure to one or more terrifying events in which grave physical harm occurred or was threatened. It is a severe and ongoing emotional reaction to an extreme psychologic... Read >

Learn To Lift Your Moods!!

Joan Adams and sister Betty DeLorme have compiled a great electronic book on different approaches to staying on a high vibrational plane, how to lift your mood when feeling blue, how to take action when you are feeling sad. I am proud to say that I wro... Read >