Fetching Dreams by Mary Bleckwehl is essential reading in 2023. Consider these summer headlines: “Heat Records Broken Around the Globe as Earth Warms, Fast” (New York Times). “The Colorado River is in crisis. And it’s getting worse” (Washington Post). “Supreme Court Rules Against Navajo Nation in Water Rights Case” (Wall Street Journal). Now consider that…
This year it was easy to choose my favorite book: Poet Warrior by Joy Harjo. Usually when someone asks me to name my best-loved book or movie, I have a really hard time figuring it out. Do you mean the favorite book and movie of my childhood (that would have to be The Five Little…
Oh, that magic feeling when the book you’ve worked on for 18 years is in your hands and it looks so beautiful! Big thanks to the editing and production team at Penguin Random House. Waves of gratitude to the many, many friends who helped me along the way. To everyone who has already bought a copy, I…
I had the honor of interviewing noted cardiologist Dr. Steinbaum about women’s heart health–and now she’s speaking at MUM’s Dalby Hall tonight at 7:45! She understands that living from your heart is the best thing you can do for your health.
BY LINDA EGENES Laozi, the Buddha, Plato, St. Teresa of Avila, Wordsworth, Emerson, Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Black Elk, Einstein—throughout history, great men and women have described sublime experiences of extraordinary wakefulness, freedom, and bliss, as different from our ordinary waking experience as waking is from dreaming. In his new book, The Supreme…
I was fascinated by these transcendental experiences of great thinkers and sages throughout the ages. The search for Enlightenment is not new.
BY LINDA EGENES As my husband and I drove home from a family trip in the light of the full moon, I pulled out my review copy of Jack Forem’s Transcendental Meditation: The Essential Teachings of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and read the introduction aloud. Wrapped in the warmth of the author’s exquisitely crafted story, we were transported…
I just interviewed Dr. Pam Peeke about her new book, The Hunger Fix: The Three-Stage Detox and Recovery Plan for Overeating and Food Addiction, and I have to say it was one of my favorite interviews of all time. Known as the “doc who walks her talk,” she is also a marathon runner, NIH researcher,…