Life Style
Between the Lines: In Defense of “Chick Lit”
Bright pink covers; gal pals drinking cosmopolitans, buying designer shoes, and searching for Mr. Right; “Bridget Jones’s Diary” and “Sex and the City”—these are the images that San Diego writer Jennifer Coburn evoked recently in addressing the question, “Is chick lit dead?” Jen Coburn is the author of four successful “chick lit” novels and a […]
Senior Ramblings
Legal Chat A very beautiful transsexual, Jenna Talackova, has been in the news lately. She was dropped from appearing in the Miss Universe contest in Canada and the United States. Gloria Allred was the lawyer Jenna chose to represent her. Donald Trump owns most of the franchises. Well, Gloria won her case, although some transsexuals […]
The Business Man: His Position and His Style
Stylishly: Aubree Lynn Style advisors are not just for women anymore. Men are now seeing the benefits of being stylish, and they are beginning to involve themselves in finding the confidence achieved from great style. Men are innovating different looks for their workplace, and the opportunity for great style does not stop there. […]
What Now? Clando Can Read
If you can read this, you’re ‘way ahead of the thousands of adults and children in our town who can’t. Because they can’t, they either fake their way through their lives, or settle for minimum achievement – minimum opportunities; they never experience the pined-for successes they could actually achieve – if they could read. With […]
The Birth of a Building
The abandoned construction site across the street was there when I moved in four years ago. It had a sense of sadness about it, an ongoing reminder of the decline of the building industry. It was a dying piece of property and a blight on the neighborhood. Rusted iron poles stood up straight as trees […]
Why Do My Orchids Die?
In March, Mission Hills Garden Club members learned about the cultivation of orchids from Tom Biggart. He has loved orchids most of his life and has a vast variety of them. He has so many plants that he and his wife had to leave their Kensington home for more land in El Cajon. This was […]
Secret # 7: Giving Acknowledgement or Positive Support
More Than Nice Talk Sabine Starr, Certified Life Coach In this series of 10 stunningly simply principles that can improve life quality significantly, number seven is about giving acknowledgements and positive support. Our minds are constantly receiving loads of information from our five senses: sight, sound, smell, taste, touch with our skin. If the incoming […]
To Sleep, Perchance to Take Herbs
There has been a recent blast of new research that confirms something you already suspected: you are sleep deprived and it is causing health problems for you. The evidence is now overwhelming that lack of sleep, even just the occasional all-nighter to study or finish a good book, has an immediate effect on blood sugar, […]
Exercise is Medicine Month
May is Declared Month to Promote Fitness Rather than medicine as the fix all for physical aches and pains. Anthony Carey of Function First, an exercise studio in Mission Hills, located at 3974 Dove Street in Mission Hills, is encouraging those with bodily discomfort and other ailments to turn to exercise. To help promote the […]
Meet Steve Berry
A Fixture on the New York Times bestseller list This guy is amazing. Steve Berry is a prolific writer and a constant fixture on the New York Times bestseller lists. Steve Berry has also been translated into 40 languages with more than 14 million printed books in 51 countries, worldwide. Berry was raised in Georgia […]
