May 20, 2011
Enjoying a Snail’s Pace
Doing Things Slowly
Take time to slow down, rushing never gets you anywhere but on to the next activity or goal.
Life can often feel like it’s zipping by in fast forward. We feel obliged to accelerate our own speed along with it, until our productivity turns into frenzied accomplishment. We find [...]

May 19, 2011
Hidden Treasure
Finding Another Vantage Point
Seeing the world from another perspective can introduce you to all sorts of hidden treasures.
The ocean can look very different, depending on whether you are standing at the shore, soaring above in a plane, or swimming beneath its waves. Likewise, a mountain can look very different relative to where [...]

When women with a history of breast cancer learn they have breast cancer again, one of the first questions they and their doctors ask is: Has my cancer come back, or is this a new case? Now, new data from Fox Chase Cancer Center suggest that both new and recurring cancers will differ significantly from [...]

May 18, 2011
Unplugging
Taking a Media Break
Taking a break from media in all forms is like a cleanse for your soul.
In this modern age, we seldom question the pervasive presence of the media. Television, radio, newspapers, magazines, telephones, and websites are part of most people’s everyday experiences. They enable us to stay informed while sometimes taking [...]

May 16, 2011–Joshlinkner.com–We all face incredible challenges in our lives. Difficult people. Ruthless competition. Time constraints. But so many of us succumb to an imaginary and impotent demon that strangles our potential and restricts our progress. This fictitious monster is called simply … the past.
While the past can be a great teacher, it can also shackle [...]

Chatelaine–Toronto, Canada–May 13, 2011–Patti Hansen targets breast cancer with daughters Theodora and Alexandra Richards
The first lady of rock talks about her 28-year marriage to Keith Richards, her wild-child days & the frightening diagnosis she had to share with her kids
LOOK AT ANY PHOTO OF PATTI HANSEN and her Rolling Stones husband, Keith Richards, and the [...]

May 13, 2011
Hovering around the Sun
Avoiding the Center
Quiet time each day is so important, but many are so out of practice that it’s almost unnerving to be in stillness.
It’s funny to imagine our lives as something we spend a lot of time avoiding, because it seems like that would be impossible to do. Our lives [...]

May 2, 2011
The Upside of Irritation
Things That Annoy Us
There will always be factors and people that we cannot control; how we respond can determine the quality of our lives.
There are many stories of spiritual masters embracing the presence of an annoying student in their community. There is even one story that documents a teacher paying [...]

Breakthrough Breast Cancer scientists have hailed their discovery of three genes linked to the most common form of breast cancer as ‘like finding gold in Trafalgar Square’.
The finding could lead to new ways to treat and prevent hormonal breast cancer, which is diagnosed in 37,000 women in the UK each year, and accounts for four [...]

Moffitt Cancer Center is the first in the Tampa Bay area to acquire the INTRABEAM® System, a new radiation platform that is designed to replace as many as six-and-a-half weeks of routine radiation therapy with a single 20- to 30-minute targeted radiation treatment. This revolutionary system, which delivers a targeted, intraoperative radiation treatment directly to [...]