There’s a new wave of romance scammers on Facebook, so I am reposting this from last summer.  I get a lot of them because my name begins with an A.  Being in the B’s, my friend Bekki Shanklin gets them as well.  Last year, Facebook friend Valerie Saurer posted “Facebook just sent me a message that hot singles are waiting for me. To prove it, they showed me a picture of my married neighbor.”  That made me laugh out loud. I now have 14 girlfriends/female clients (that I know of) that have all joined online dating services.  I wrote about one of them at Online dating: E-Harmony vs. Match.com — Beware the Scammers. All of them have experienced the scammers but sometimes it has taken them a while to realize the guy is up to no good.  I have male friends this happens to as well. Continue reading →

You’ve seen the shows; Cheaters, where they get permission from the mate to use a hidden camera to catch a cheating spouse, who is then confronted by a very stern Joey Greco , with camera crew in tow.  We get the whole blow up on camera.  In one episode, we watched Greco get stabbed by a confronted spouse.  The new reality show named Sex Decoys: Love Stings, goes a step further.  In this one, lovers hire the set up of a sting operation to see if their partner will be tempted. We get to follow the sting and watch the confrontation, and there’s the added bonus of a follow up phone call.  Without exception, the tempted take the bait, the blow up is ugly and in the follow up phone call has them often still together.  WTF? Continue reading →

Some friends joined a dating site and have been telling me their experiences of it.  The consensus is: It’s a jungle out there. It seems these days, the hip thing to do is to put on your profile that your favorite book is the Kama Sutra and that you are into tantra.  Then, during the first couple of instant messages, the conversations start turning all freaky and pornie.  WTF???  That is their first clue that these people do not know what tantra is at all.  Many use the word tantra to mean tantric sex. The word “tantra”  is being used to market everything from bath salts to music, but what the uninformed do not know is that tantric sex is only one facet of tantra. Tantra is an entire lifestyle, just as yoga is a lifestyle and encompasses much more than merely body postures (asanas). The concept of true tantra, as in true yoga, is an entire state of consciousness that imbues everything you do with a sense of oneness and connection. It seeks to commune in a holy manner with everything you come in contact with, animate or inanimate, animal, mineral, vegetable or etheric. It treats everything with utmost respect, kindness and reverence, and celebrates every thing at every moment. Tantra teaches to live in an orgasmic state of being. That is what living a tantric lifestyle is all about. Continue reading →

As a professional clairvoyant, I see everything around me not only with my outer vision, but also with my inner vision. I tend to think of the world around me as the visible manifestation of energy in motion, because as an energy worker that’s how I perceive it. The concept of subtle energy is not a theoretical one for me. Everything and everyone I see with inner sight is composed of highly interactive energy. This means I’m paying less attention to what your words are, than I am to what your energy field is telling me, and how you’re “vibrating”, as Abraham-Hicks would say.   When I’m looking into your energy field, I’m not thinking “oh, he’s yellow,” or “oh, she’s blue.” It’s my experience that colors change every moment with every thought, more often as your moods do. What I perceive is like a film clip within a layer of the aura that runs along the first few inches from your skin. Different locations show me a different “movie.” Yours fears and concerns make for a more vivid film than do the areas of your life you’re bored with. Kind of like the old black and white movies they’ve colorized – you’re going along in black and white (the oppressed, boring parts of your life) and suddenly you’re in color (your fears, fervent wishes, etc.) Continue reading →

I dreamed last night that I won the lotto and gave the magazine away. I woke up and it felt so real my first thought was there was no hurry to check email.  That felt pretty free!  Since I’m getting ready to win the lotto, I thought – well, why not give the magazine to someone and go play?  I’m not joking.  The whole kit and kaboodle.  No, there are no debts or anything like that 🙂  So who should I give it to and why?   If you know someone or want to be considered, let me know. (Of course obviously everything would be handled legally and all ad contracts fulfilled, etc.)

Who and why. This way, when my ticket wins, I’ll have a list handy and have made my decision already.  No strings.  Seriously.  What would you do if it was yours?

I had a good surprise when I got home today, a notice that Amazon.com had sold a book I had listed with them for sale.  When the tv show The Real Housewives of New Jersey came on, at the center of controversy with the character Danielle Staub was a book called Cop Without a Badge: The Extraordinary Undercover Life of Kevin Maher by Charles Kipps.  When I saw the book cover, I knew I had the book here. On 6-6-09,  I wrote on Facebook: “I just realized I have an out of print book here that is suddenly in the news, so I listed it to sell at a ridiculous price at amazon.com. Let’s see what happens.”

Then on 6-8-09,  I wrote on Facebook: “OMG the book I listed on amazon.com the other day is now the only one available. Too funny. I listed it on a whim.”

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YinYang is very territorial and I’ve seen her pitch her little fits

My cats each have their own favorite places to sleep and hang out. Giant Maine Coon Izzy likes to be stationed either at the hallway, so he can see anything that comes in the cat door or the front and back doors.  My sleek haired, black and white masked harlequin YinYang likes to be in a box top on top of an end table by the tv, with a view toward the living room and backyard.  When Izzy finds YinYang in his spot every so often, he just acts like he didn’t even notice and goes elsewhere.  When Yinny finds Izzy in her spot however, she goes all King Kong on his fuzzy butt. Continue reading →

Today is typically the day I do my paperwork for the magazine mailing this weekend, but I was smart this time and did it all yesterday.  In fact, I did it in record time – about 5 hours – since I managed to stay off Facebook and Twitter.  It’s amazing how quickly the work goes when I jump right into it rather than whining to myself for an hour that I’d rather play instead.  I learned that if I do the work a day early, then I am not rushing at the last minute.  That idea was as helpful as learning to bill early enough that the payments are all in by the time the bills need to be paid.  I’ve now got it down to a science. The next  best idea was pre-paying my printer every week so that by the time my job goes in, it’s paid for.  Last year I got behind with them just from not paying attention to what I was doing. When they finally called it to my attention I was really embarrassed.  Now I just order a check sent several times a month and by the time it goes in, it’s paid for. Continue reading →

A Belgian teenager supposedly fell asleep while getting her face tattooed and woke up to 56 Rihanna-style stars on her face. Now, she’s suing the tattoo artist. The original account claimed she “was happy with the work when she left the tattoo shop, but changed  her mind when her father saw the stars.”  The next version of the story, in the next publication, said that she “is only peeved because her boyfriend dumped her after seeing the monstrosity.”  Who knows what this story will end up being by this time next year.  Don’t believe what you read.
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Sunday, June 21, 2009.  Happy Summer Solstice. I did a half assed blog post this morning since I had worked until the wee hours finishing the July Horizons Magazine.  Then I woke up and had to leave right away to drive to The New Way to hang with the POD. A mile from my house, I stopped to get gas, and also filled the small 2 gallon can I use for my lawn mower.  I decided to drive it back home rather than keep it in the hot car with me for several hours.  Even though it would make me late, I felt strongly about taking it back to the house before continuing on my day.  Inexpicably, as I dropped the can inside the garage, I was compelled to go inside and change clothes.  That’s something I rarely do.  I throw something on and that’s that.  I keep it simple.  A fashionista, I’m not.  I put on a short knit sundress I hadn’t worn in 18 years, with a pair of leggings and ran out the door.  All in all, I dawdled and it was a good 20 minutes later before I was back on the road. Continue reading →