When our dog Kaya recently executed a triple flip after hitting a moving car, landing unharmed, I mentioned this on Facebook.  And more people responded than is usually the case.  Lots more.  So I learned something about getting attention in the social media and it goes without saying that attention is good.  What I learned: bring in […] Read More

I'm cooking up so many jazzy promotional things to draw attention to Cobalt Blue that I woke up one morning last week and said to myself: Are you out of your mind? That was the morning after I had hit the costume websites and ordered floor-length cobalt blue hooded cloaks (for the walking advertisers and one […] Read More

How a New Zealand yoga teacher handles (on a good day) a moment of awkwardness/fear/feeling unappreciated. From The Yoga Lunchbox: "At yoga on Wednesday night only three people show up. It's easy to get upset about that – to worry about the cost of teaching versus the income of the class, to worry about why people […] Read More

We all know it's easier to talk long than to talk short.  Same with writing.  A generous amount of time/space gives you room to move around. To be brief means to be very clear. On March 25, my psychologist husband Bob Dick is going to sum up what he has learned about using hypnosis in roughly 50 […] Read More

Goodness, gracious, it wasn't supposed to be out until the end of this month, which is almost 30 days away.  But then mid-week I started to hear rumors: your book is on the shelf at Quail Ridge Books & Music. Official publication dates never do mean a whole lot; books drift out in the neighborhood of the assigned […] Read More

The always-intriguing Sun magazine has a back page called Sunbeams made up of quotes on an unnamed theme.   A page I long ago pulled out and stashed away for future stumblings-across offers bits of wisdom on courage. Here is one of the page's gems: "People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.  People […] Read More

Complete blank-minded lethargy is my goal for today.  (I have a cold and I'm trying to at least wring some wisdom out of the experience of staying home for a day.) So far, I haven't managed blank mind.  Done pretty well on lethargy.  Also making a fine showing on pessimism, theatrical suffering, and littering the […] Read More

Today I'm letting Mark Pinsky at Huffington Post post for me:  Cobalt Blue: Kundalini for Dummies? I was very happy to read this. Read More

As a serious magazine junkie, I turn through or pore over three or four dozen a week.  I get them at the magazine swap corner at my nearest public library (Eva Perry in Apex), the swap shop shed at the county recycling center (the dump), the PTA Thrift Shop in Chapel Hill (currently 2 for […] Read More

You might think that this is a small thing: a personal and professional no-brainer.  To me, it's a big deal, which is how it is with so many anxieties.  One person's no-problem is another's ponder-it-obsessively.  I have no problem with something like risking rejection or hamming it up (see photo below), but I worry about […] Read More