Author Archives: Andrea

Take Note If You Accept Collect Calls From A Phone Booth

I just got an email from a friend who got a surprise when he opened his phone bill this month.  HD writes:  I was accepting collect calls from some homeless people I try to help…  I knew I would be billed $ 1.50 for each call ….  but when I got my bill and opened it, I thought it was a mistake at $658.87 ….  I thought it looked like they were billing me long distrance charges too and the phone booths are local… but what I found out was the phone booths are owned by a company that is overseas… and they have no rules they have to follow…. so they billed the $1.50 per call but also charge per minute of speak time at 5.11 per minute…. and I was told my bill is correct at $ 658.87 and I need to pay it. Here is the complete information; Continue reading

Why Does “The Secret” Movie (extended version) No Longer Contain The Secret? The Abraham-Hicks Back Story

I got an email yesterday that read:  I was just reading the latest Horizons and I see that you recommend the original Secret with Abraham-Hicks. That is the version that I first saw and was surprised that they edited Abraham-Hicks out of future versions. With Abraham explaining our Emotional Guidance System, THAT is the key to working the Law of Attraction! Without that segment in there, there IS no secret. But I never did hear WHY she/they were edited out–did you? (see end of this article for their statement in their own words.)

I wrote him back that I had a blog post waiting to go in about it and this is it:  I just saw the revised/edited (they call it EXTENDED) version of The Secret for the first time.  I had seen the original one with Abraham-Hicks, whose material was the inspiration for The (original) Secret movie, several times and it was an excellent work.  The revision is a very diluted version that paradoxically leaves out “the secret” itself.  No wonder everyone is so confused despite the new legion of Secret Teachers out there. For WHY Abraham-Hicks bowed out of the original project, read at https://www.meetup.com/Washington-Abraham-Hicks/boards/view/viewthread?thread=2283719

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My Mind Tricks Keep Me In The Now Moment

freighter at nightThis was a good weekend.  On Saturday I went to Shanti‘s Summer of Love event in Titusville and got to connect with friends.  They had several things going on, music, chanting, vendor booths, Reiki, massage, drumming; they were inside, outside, on the dock.  It went on all day and I didn’t get to go until later, but it was the best part of the day.  My schedule is such that anywhere I go, I need to be back home by 9:00 at night because I do phone sessions most evenings.  I’ve done that for so many years now that I almost never drive after dark.  When I do, it’s quite the adventure.  Driving home I took I-95, which I seldom do since I enjoy the scenery along US1.  Even though it’s longer, I typically take “the green way” everywhere I can.  But after dark, whether on US 1 or I-95, all I see is what’s lit up right in front of me.  I may as well be driving on the Overseas Highway in the Florida Keys, with nothing but ocean on either side of me.  It reminds me of the time my friend Mark Tietig and I sailed up the coast from Miami to Anapolis in 1983.  Half the time was spent in the shipping lane offshore in the middle of the night.  We’d be so close to the freighters (“the freakers” I called them) and they would move slowly and sliently by, like some surreal city out of a John Waters or Federico Fellini film.  I’d feel like an ant standing next to a skyscraper, or a dot in an immense galaxy. That is kind of the feeling I get driving alone at night on I-95 or US 1 as well.  Surreal and very reflective. Continue reading

Hanging On To The Wound By Telling The Old Story. You’re not hurting, you’re healing; it’s not a wound, it’s a repair.

Two weeks ago Brothermine Has Hip Replacement Surgery and he’s been keeping me posted with his progress.  One thing we have in common is we both heal quickly from whatever nicks and scrapes we go through.   Jerry wrote to me: “I’m getting over the Oxycontin (they gave him in the hospital) withdrawal now.   It’s just amazing that I’ve had no more pain than I’ve had.  I mean good grief they dislocated my hip, sawed the end off the bone and hammered a metal shaft into the bone.  No to mention all that cutting through muscles and tissue.  My thigh was black and blue from the rough handling. I think it’s all a matter of perception.  Any surgery I’ve had, I’ve always felt like I’m healing rather than hurting.  While they call an incision a wound, I call it a repair.  All the wounding happened while I was asleep so I didn’t experience that. Anyway, I think that healing never hurts.  It’s the hanging on to the wound that is painful, be it physical, emotional or spiritual.”

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You Want To Be My Friend On Facebook? Are You F*cking Kidding Me?

On Facebook yesterday, my friend Robin Krasny posted a Youtube video that was too funny not to pass along. The lyrics are subtitled. I am glad my exes on Facebook are all really cool guys who are still pals. If they weren’t I might sing them this song You Want To Be My Friend On Facebook? Are You F*cking Kidding Me? The song is by Kate Miller Heidke.  Here are the lyrics: Continue reading

High Praise

I just sent out my monthly email telling that the August magazine was now online and I got this email back: I saw something I wanted to pass along to you. It’s from your piece in the August Horizons Magazine:   “When you meet someone you click with – and this is in any area of life, not just intimate relationships – you come alive. You feel inspired. The thoughts and ideas and creativity begin to flow.” That’s what happened when I met you Andrea. Something clicked and I became alive and open to a whole new way of thinking.  Thanks Andrea.  Signed  M.E.

Wow! This is what I live for!

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Take it from Smiling Bob

The other night I watched a movie on cable that began at 2:00am.  That meant I also got to watch all the male enhancement medication commercials about Smiling Bob.  Smiling Bob, whose golf stroke is the longest.  Smiling Bob, whose wife is shown smiling while holding a hugely phallic glass of iced tea.  Smiling Bob, in Santa hat, with a long line of ladies just squirming and giggling to get onto his lap. He’s always shown with like a long, hard golf club or a long, hard baseball bat or a long, hard, well… you get it.   And this commercial runs over and over and over all night long on a lot of channels.  That commercial and the one of the guys losing their hair and, oh, the belly fat fighters.  God forbid someone lose a little hair or gets a little paunch or goes through a slow libido cycle.  To hear these commercials, you’d think there was a raging problem in the male population.  In fact, I’m sure that wherever you find a segment of the male population that watches these commercials all night long, every night, you’ll find all sorts of the exact “problems” they mention.  Imagine that. Continue reading

Consumer Rip Offs – Don’t Let Them Get Away With It

No this is not a paid ad, I just like people to be informed.  I’ve gotten several calls from The March Group, who I take to be a business broker, wanting to sell my business for me.  They invite me to come to a day long seminar where they will help me determine the value of my business, because they have many people interested in acquiring businesses such as mine, and it is very much in demand. Which is fine except I’m not interested in selling.  Plus, these free regional magazines are not money makers by any means.  Not at these prices.  Selling franchises and selling magazines is what makes money.  I found when Goggling The March Group that they routinely flood the search engines with their spin, so that was my second red flag*.   So I posted on Facebook to ask if anyone had experience with them.  I found this online. One friend wrote to check at the website Ripoff Report: By Consumers, For Consumers. Continue reading

Mulholland Drive, David Lynch and Transcendental Meditation

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Conscious David Lynch

I just saw the movie Mulholland Drive. It was on in the middle of the night and I’d never seen it before. I’d remembered that there was either a good director or stars I liked in it, so I decided to watch. I missed the first 20 minutes and I did not know it was a David Lynch film, but another 20 minutes in to it, I figured that out.  I was going to Google it and see what I’d missed, but I wanted to stay in the mystery and enjoy the unfolding so I didn’t.  I did however, Google “David Lynch” “Mulholland Drive” just to see if I was right, and saw: “Written and directed by David Lynch. After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesic…”  and I also saw “Along Mulholland Drive nothing is what it seems.”  I figured if it was a David Lynch film, those two lines gave me as much background as I needed. Continue reading

Keep Telling That Story, You’ll Keep Living That Life: Program Your Inner Dialogue To Propel You Forward

I listened to the latest Abraham-Hicks cd on my drive to Ocala Monday.  As usual, there was a lot of helpful information and reminders.  One favorite line was The only way unhappy people can stay in your life is if you focus on their unhappiness. I thought how true that was.  We all have friends that go through rough times now and again and then there are those that have one string of problems after another.  Despite being adults, they just can’t seem to get their sh*t together, and they want to tell you all about it on a regular basis.  You know, of course, that listening to them tell their story over and over again is not doing either of you any good. But they don’t know that.  All they know is they think they feel better when they drag someone else into their chain of pain to commiserate with.  “But I’m just letting you know,” they will say, or “I’m just telling you the facts.” They really don’t get it that whether their story is true or not, telling it over and over is not helping them. Continue reading