

While all my friends were celebrating St. Patrick’s Day this year, I was attending a movement workshop with the renowned Jean-Louis Rodrigue. You’ve heard me mention Jean-Louis before. He’s a genius “movement coach to the stars” but in this particular class he was working with a group of public speakers like myself.
We did plenty of exercises to reconnect with our bodies (anybody else out there…
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Think you’re busy? Me too!
That’s why I’m amazed when I hear stories of gals who are able to pen novels while waiting in line at the grocery store or who can get more done in a single year than a lot of us can achieve in an entire decade.
And Shea Curry is definitely one of these busy bodies who gets things done!
When this talented actress…
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The hustle and bustle of the Holiday season was interrupted here in LA yesterday morning with the tragic shooting rampage just blocks from my apartment. Perhaps you saw the video on the news. S-C-A-R-Y.
And since a stop at the FedEx office smack dab in the middle of the crime zone was on my list of errands yesterday, had I not taken a wee bit longer…
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We’ve often heard about retailers and brands offering celebrities money to wear their clothes and use their products. In fact, we’ve also heard the scuttlebutt when these same brand ambassadors are caught out in public sipping a rival brand’s beverage or wearing a rival brand’s pair of jeans.
But now, this celebrity branding has taken an interesting new twist.
It seems that the teen chain Abercrombie &…
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I’ve only just begun reading Susan Freinkel’s timely book, Plastic—A Toxic Love Story, and I’m already enthralled.
For instance, did you know we’ve produced as much plastic in the past decade as we did in the ENTIRE twentieth century?
But what’s most disturbing is that unlike metal, glass and paper, which can truly be recycled without adding new materials, plastic can’t.
Melting plastic for recycling damages plastic’s polymer…
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