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The Power of Play

I heard a great interview on Speaking of Faith on NPR a few weeks ago.  Stuart Brown, MD is the founder and director of the National Institute for Play.  This organization is devoted to research and initiatives which promote play as a therapeutic and necessary part of life for both adults and children. 

Dr. Brown asserted [...]

Book Reports: Food Matters/Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

There is a series of commercials on TV these days where one person asks another person a question and they just keep spouting out random information that is loosely related to the words the other person just said.  It’s a nice demonstration of the information overload that we experience in our modern world. 

As Uncle Ben [...]

Yoga Breathing

One of the best things about being related to a bunch of news junkies is that my family is always sending me great articles related to my areas of interest. My sister-in-law just sent me a great article about the benefits of breathing in yoga.

Anyone who has attended my workshops has received training in breathing [...]

Late Post

Recently I checked in on a friend’s website to see if he had posted any new articles. He is a tremendously talented and funny writer and for years I (and many others) have been begging him to take his talent more public. I am excited to report that he has done so but this means he doesn’t really have time to update his site. On a whim I clicked on a link to his professional work. I was shocked to read an article which described how he had recently moved after his house was broken into. [...]

In Your Face(book)

Recently I checked in on a friend’s website to see if he had posted any new articles.  He is a tremendously talented and funny writer and for years I (and many others) have been begging him to take his talent more public.  I am excited to report that he has done so but this means [...]