I’ve spoken before of how and why I enjoy fooling around with feng shui. For me, it’s one part voodoo, six parts Really Fun Way to Clean and Organize Your House. Anyway, I’ve probably spent the most time cleaning and organizing and feng shui-ing the two corners opposite one another in the far corners of [...]
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My favorite example of the conceivably-possible, magical woo-woo powers of feng shui has to do with two checks for $10,000 each and my kitchen, which, according to the Black Hat school of feng shui* (as differentiated from the compass school) is my prosperity corner. It was the summer of consternation for me: a devastating breakup, [...]
When something, or something close to the something, happens a few times, it’s a good idea to sit up and take note*. While catching up on my reading, a sense of the familiar washed over me when I spied a gem of an item from Gretchen Rubin, the Happiness Project curatrix, about using the finite [...]
I have an affinity for skeptics, or they for me. Odd, because while I’ve never been religious, I’m no atheist. To the consternation of many thinking people who otherwise dig my shit, I believe firmly in many things for which there is no scientific basis, like reincarnation, ESP and all that crap they talked about [...]