March 2009

When I was selling books in Oregon and learning about manifestation, I decided I wanted to become rich. So I worked at trying to allow the universe to increase my sales and my income by selling more books. However, I hated the book business, hated packing books, hated listing them, hated the whole thing. Just [...]

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I’ve been a member of a discussion board for eight years. Recently, one of the members, Shane, died at a very young age. In the thread about Shane’s death, many have posted how they knew him, met with him, spoke with him, liked him, respected his knowledge and appreciated his generosity. We don’t know why [...]

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If you are an American writer, periods and commas always go inside quotations marks. For example: I told him, “I enjoy a good steak now and then,” to which he replied, “You’re a bloody murderer.”

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For my birthday I started the 80/10/10 diet. I lasted about five days on that and ate a couple days of my customary diet. But I really wanted to change my eating habits, so I thought a fast was in order. Fasting allows the body to live off its reserves instead going through the energy-intensive [...]

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I tried 80/10/10 and realize this diet will just not work for me. A mainstay of the diet is bananas–as much as 10 to 12 at a meal–in order to get enough calories for the day. I’m just not a fan of bananas. The most I could eat was five. The amount of fruit required [...]

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