Late last winter I attended a formal dinner dance. I was greatly looking forward to the dance portion of the evening. I love feeling the rhythm of music pulsating within my body.

Every school district in the state has told me they’re not hiring teachers with a Masters because they can get two bachelors for the price of me.

For most people, work life plus commute time occupies about 30% of a week’s total 168 hours. That’s a big chunk of time and energy to invest in just about anything, considering sleep takes up another 30%.

My eyes aren't open and already I can hear the creak of the tin stove as it warms the tipi up with the morning fire. Otgonbayar has returned from milking her reindeer and is quietly moving about the tipi.

Rajesh had a special relationship with his grandfather. He learned from him how to fight. Rajesh is a devotee of Kâlarippayat, an ancient martial art that developed in southern India.

Many of us feel lost, but there is a way out - a doorway to a place of indescribable peace. This doorway is within your very Self.

In the early 1980s when we still lived in the Soviet Union, we never questioned the contents and the effects of the paint we used to paint our house, the fertilizer we spread in our garden, and the food we had in our refrigerator.

The impersonality of lie in the Western world has become such that we have produced a race of untouchables.

As a social worker, educator, Reiki Master and a homeschooling parent, I am consistently challenged by the question of how to balance my "outer world" with my "inner world."

How many times do you wake up feeling tired, no energy or no excitement for the day ahead of you?

What is invisible and imaginary yet has more impact in steering the course of your life than even a million dollar bank account? Your self image.

I used to feel badly when people made these comments to me after looking at my artwork...

Dear Editor, There is a serious error in your Nov/Dec ’04 issue in the article entitled “Can You Too, Live To Be 122?” Dr. Glaser implies that readers should eat plenty of Brazil nuts because they contain the antioxidant selenium.

Whether by accident, illness, aging or the cards life deals you any time from birth onwards, at some point in life many of us face obstacles to sexuality.

A few months ago, I fled with my small child to a woman’s shelter to find refuge from a violent husband. Several weeks later, I was diagnosed with breast cancer.

It all started when I met Grace -- that really was her name - in the breakfast line at the hospital cafeteria.

As a fresh year settles into our lives, our thoughts turn naturally towards hopes of change and renewal

Episcopal Bishop John Thomas Walker died in 1989 at the age of 64, just as he should have rightfully donned the cloak of elder.

“No seat should be empty in any church or house of worship of any denomination,” says Deacon Randy Green, director of the Silver Leaf Gospel Singers for nearly 60 years. “The church gives a spiritual underpinning to people’s lives and builds community.”

he rainbow appearing in the sky is a hopeful sign no matter where you travel around the world.

Plant and scatter these seeds throughout the universe by the vibrations created when you speak these words aloud.

Last Christmas I flew from Boston to Evansville, Indiana, to visit my 94-year-old father who lives in a nursing home there. He and I have been on a long, at times extremely difficult, journey together since my mother’s death 8 years ago.