Unless you are open to the possibility of spirits and energy healing, Walking Through Walls might be a little too bizarre for Main Street. Fortunately, my Chinese background (think Joy Luck Club) with its various ancestral spirits opens me to the possibility of phenomenon that science cannot explain.
My usually genre for reading material are personal finance, health/fitness, science fiction, and historical fiction. Rarely do I pick up a memoir, but I was intrigued with the idea of a psychic healer. Walking Through Walls is Philip Smith’s memoir on growing up with a father (Lews Smith) who was an all-knowing psychic healer.
Photo by: Kris de Curtis.
I want to take this opportunity to thank my readers and to wish you all a Merry Christmas. I will be taking the rest of this week off to spend time with my friends and family. So no new posts until next Monday.
But here are some of my favorite posts that might be of interest to new readers:
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When it comes to weight loss, all of us have an Achilles heel. These specific situation can derail our good intentions with a blink of the eyes. Once we can identify of weak spots, we can begin to solve them for permanent weight loss.
Often our lifestyle and habits change with time. The cornerstone of successful weight loss is successful problem solving.
This post will discuss the diet danger zone caused by bored eating and possible solutions for for successfully solving bored eating.
Photo by: Tim.
I discovered that we have an electronic 3 hole punch at work because I heard my co-worker, Eric, using it. You stick a few sheets of paper into this contraption, press a button, it makes some noise, and voila! you have 3 holes on the edge of your paper. Right next to this electronic 3 hole punch is your standard commercial grade three hole punch with the metal handle that you manually have to lift and push down.
First there was the Automatic Millionaire, then the Automatic Homeowner, now there is the Automatic Supersize Me.
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My nephew came home last year with a coupon for a Happy Meal for reading 10 books in his school’s reading program. I remember watching his glowing face while he waved that coupon in front of me. I am a strong advocate of reading. I remember thinking: “Should I praise him for reading all those books or should I have a discussion about junk food advertisement?”
When voters defeat school levies or bonds, where can schools turn to for the funding they need to operate? That is right – food companies are more than happy to fill in the funding gap for displaying advertisements, passing out coupons, or subsidizing learning material.
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A few posts ago, I mentioned that everyone wants us to be fat. Along the same theme, I would like to discuss how public confusion over food choices is good for the profits of food companies.
The trade associations and public relations group can take the results of a single nutrient research and make across the board claim that their food product contain the beneficial nutrient and lobby for the right to make that claim on package labels. Never mind that food contains hundreds of micro-nutrients and other components that influence health.
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My husband often falls for healthy sounding labels such as “multi-grain,” “7 gains,” “100% wheat,” and “cracked wheat” when he shops for bread. When the bread is on sale and has a healthy label, it makes it into the shopping cart.
I have no problem with people making the conscious choice to feed their families white bread. I just have a problem with food companies overselling their white bread as “whole grain” bread.
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