One of the most challenging affairs for any family unit is supervising the budget and making sure that your spending is in line with what you’re bringing in. Most people are not used to managing finances under this much scrutiny, and they can let things get out of hand. With the effects of the global [...]

We’ve been talking about Shiva and Mahakala. Perhaps we can use this knowledge that there are things from everyday life, like songs, pictures, and images, that aren’t tankas, that aren’t from ancient Tibet, India, or some other culture. We could actually use the everyday aspects of our life to reinforce this practice.. We were talking [...]

The Heart Link Network is all about women networking and women working together to help each other. Connecting women with products, resources, services, and the hearts and lives of all. There is extraordinary power in women networking and working together.
We are fully committed to removing much of the work out of networking for [...]

Seldom do we find youths and young adults in their early 20’s with areas of hair gone from their heads. Plenty hair loss in men happens in their thirties & forties even though it isn’t unusual from men in their late twenties to drop hair as well. The apprehension of aging is feared amongst today’s [...]

Sometimes I hate to say it, ’cause I didn’t always have Great Expectations for my dating life. Get this, yesterday I broke my resolution and smoked two packs of cigarettes. During my birthday party while being single, duh! I pretend to be ashamed about it. Does that tell you anything? Actually, that’s when I initially [...]

For one, I cannot say I’m exactly comfortable as an “independent” (aka: naturally single) person and not crack a smile. Even then, I’m not unsatisfied in that way, either. I only bring it up in this blog as a delicious little tidbit setting up the story I am prepared to reveal to you
This time last [...]

On the surface, a glimpse into the life of Dara Stewart reveals nothing unusual. She’s got a job she likes, friends and family who love her and a big, dumb Akita named Jake. But after a brush with death from a brain hemorrhage in 2002, Dara’s recovery included having to learn to walk again. For [...]

My earliest adventures in art read like a baby boomer’s TV guide. I began with “Winky-Dink,” an interactive show, in which viewers drew the starry hero to safety on a magic screen. I colored by number with luscious, Venus Paradise pencils. The official “John Gnagy” drawing kit presented me with authentic tools of the trade. [...]

We often find ourselves in a situation in which we either accept the change that someone else imposes upon us or in which we ourselves effect the change we would like to see happen. We sometimes stammer and hesitate and procrastinate with regard to decision making. Not making a decision is a decision in itself.
After [...]

There are 86,400 seconds in each day. It takes less than one of those to make a decision. Each decision we make can take life in a wholly different direction.
Having lived more than 1,475,776,800 seconds myself, it is astounding to consider the myriad of turns that life could have taken with each new thought that [...]