Posts tagged aging
July 24, 2010 · Filed under Book Reviews · Tagged aging, boomers, divorce, fearless, intuition, nde, Near Death Experience, old, optimism, positive thinking, psychic abilities, self awareness, storytelling, trauma, writing
The Return of Intuition: Awakening Psychic Gifts in the Second Half of Life
By Kathryn Harwig
Published August 1, 2010 (Paperback) Llewellyn
My mother did not teach me how to avoid my stepfather’s sexual acts when I was a kid, but she did teach me how to lift my forehead to keep wrinkles from forming, so that I would appear younger longer, and men would want me. I obeyed. The irony was not lost on me.
But she successfully planted in me a shame of growing old. So while I love the title – The Return of Intuition - the subtitle Awaking Psychic Gifts in the Second Half of Life makes me want to hide. Or tease the math. Read the rest of this entry »
June 4, 2010 · Filed under Book Reviews · Tagged actors, aging, cult, fearless, fiction, Hollywood, humor, inspiration, novel, passion, relationships, self awareness, storytelling, tell-all, writing
Tell-All
By Chuck Palahniuk
Published May 4, 2010 (Hardcover) Doubleday
Delicious miracle – reading Tell-All, finished-on-the-page – after hearing the words sketched out months ago.
Chuck Palahniuk had invited me into his writing group a few years ago - a complete honor - so I was in Workshop, as we call it, that night Read the rest of this entry »
May 6, 2010 · Filed under Book Reviews · Tagged ageless, aging, happiness, humor, writing
How to Succeed at Again…Without Really Dying
By Lyla Blake Ward
Published April 6, 2010 (Hardcover) AmazonEncore
My mother was a great role model for hating her age. When she was 53 and I made her a grandmother for the very first time, she said, “The baby can’t call me grandma. I’m not old enough to be a grandmother.”
“Mom,” I said, “You are!”
She had a tummy tuck before she was forty, a series of three face lifts soon after, eye work, and hip replacement surgery all before she became a grandmother. No surgery for me – yet – no Botox – just dance, water, laughter. But my age bugs the crap outa me. So, when Lyla Blake Ward’s book arrived today, How to Succeed at Aging Without Really Dying, I dove in, and started laughing. Read the rest of this entry »
March 24, 2010 · Filed under Book Reviews · Tagged aging, career, goals, happiness, healing, humor, inspiration, menopause, optimism, passion, positive thinking, relationships, self awareness, the Drew Carey Show, wrinkles
Queen of Your Own Life
By Kathy Kinney & Cindy Ratzlaff
Published March 30th, 2010 (Hardcover) Harlequin
I’m calling Queen of Your Own Life one of the silliest books I’ve ever read…that felt this good. And the praise is owed to The Drew Carey Show’s mean Mimi.
Really!
Let me ask you a question. Read the rest of this entry »
January 19, 2010 · Filed under Book Reviews · Tagged acting young, aging, airport, dancing, fearless, goals, happiness, how not to act old, how to be young, inspiration, optimism, positive thinking, self awareness, sons, strangers, workout
How Not To Act Old: 185 Ways to Pass for Phat, Sick, Hot, Dope, Awesome, or at Least Not Totally Lame
By Pamela Redmond Satran
Published August 4, 2009 (Paperback) Harper Paperbacks
Where has this book been hiding? How Not To Act Old by Pamela Redmond Satran is ROLF hysterical. Good thing, because it was midnight, and I hadn’t read a book yet. I dug it out of my stacks, and now I have read HNTAO – and I have to say, this is a controversial topic. If you say you act younger or look younger than you are, people start throwing things at you, like dirty looks.
But it’s very very funny.
Want to know why I’m typing with my thumbs right now? Number 56. Read the rest of this entry »
January 1, 2010 · Filed under Book Reviews · Tagged aging, Baryshnikov, CEO, choreography, dance, dancing, fearless, Gregory Hines, inspiration, love, manifest, Martha Graham, MBA, optimism, passion, radio industry, relationships, self awareness, workout
The Collaborative Habit: Life Lessons for Working Together
By Twyla Tharp
Published November 24, 2009 (Hardcover) Simon and Schuster
“Collaboration is the buzzword of the new millennium.” So begins The Collaborative Habit, and when author/choreographer Twyla Tharp blends in the dance, I find it irresistible.
The lone hero, she says, are yesterday’s role models. Read the rest of this entry »
November 30, 2009 · Filed under Author Interviews, Book Reviews · Tagged aging, Deepak Chopra, fear, healing, inspiration, love, manifest, meditation, passion, physical health, positive thinking, reinvent, relationships, resurrect, self awareness, The View, time, younger
Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul: How to Create a New You
By Deepak Chopra
I talked to a long-time friend today. Deepak Chopra and I have done close to a dozen interviews about his books over the years, many of those conversations knee-to-knee.
Today, we talked by phone on Open Book with Diana Page Jordan about his newest book Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul. God, he’s razor-edge brilliant. Deepak has written more than fifty books. How can someone be so prolific, and squeeze in, for example, our half-hour interview, and he was on The View earlier in the day, while writing a new book, while meeting with philanthropists about funding a more peaceful world. Read the rest of this entry »
September 10, 2009 · Filed under Book Reviews · Tagged aging, diabetes, diet, fearless, fiction, goals, happiness, healing, hypno, hypnotism, inspiration, jonathan livingston seagull, law of attraction, magic, novel, pilot, positive thinking, self awareness, storytelling, the secret, writing
Hypnotizing Maria
By Richard Bach
Published September 18, 2009 (Hardcover) Hampton Roads Publishing
Hypnotizing Maria begins with a pilot who inadvertently becomes a hero. Pilot Jamie Forbes, in comforting-Richard-Bach style, convinces Maria, a passenger in another small plane, that she can make a safe landing after her pilot-husband dies.
But the book bounds far and away from that simple realm. The book slips bonds of ordinary beliefs. The book bounces my brain from the reality I know to the place in my mind where I play. The play turns out to be true; the reality, not.
Maria claims that Jamie Read the rest of this entry »
August 26, 2009 · Filed under Book Reviews · Tagged aging, dancing, divorce, goals, happiness, healing, inspiration, positive thinking, reading, relationships, stepfather, therapy
By Mark Atteberry
Published July 2009 (Paperback) Standard Publishing
Put me in an LBD and I am happy. The cover of So Much More Than Sexy grabbed me for that very reason. And there is that nuanced nod to what I have been working on lately. Read the rest of this entry »
June 21, 2009 · Filed under Book Reviews · Tagged aging, alcoholism, divorce, father, healing, inspiration, physical health, stepfather, transcending, trauma
By Janis Abrahms Spring, PhD with Michael Spring
Published April 30, 2009 (Hardcover) by Avery
Not knowing what Life will bring, Iwould still place high odds that I will not experience what Janis Abrahms Spring speaks of in Life With Pop: Lessons in Caring For An Aging Parent. Dr Spring is a therapist — she is also a woman free-falling into the role of caretaker for her aging, and rapidly deteriorating father. Pop is a sweet man Read the rest of this entry »
