Category Archives: Shopping

The Bucket List

By Susan | June 29, 2009

If you saw last year’s feature movie “The Bucket List”, you’ll recognize that term as one for an end-of-your-life list of the things you want to do, places you want to go, and accomplishments that you meant to get to before life always got in the way. While it is an important topic, given that [...]

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Aging

By Susan | June 19, 2009

My father-in-law used to say, when I would whine on my birthday about becoming a year older, “consider the alternative.” Wise words indeed from a man of few words (but many naps). Being invited recently to a demo of an “instant face lift” caused some paranoia (why is she inviting ME, do I look like [...]

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Random Acts of Kindness

By Susan | June 12, 2009

Remember the craze about a dozen years ago of practicing “random acts of kindness”? Well apparently it hasn’t totally ended. I came into the store the other day and the owner of the patisserie next door (www.hereghty’s.com – a wonderful place) followed me in with a coffee and croissant which he handed to me. When [...]

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The Gratitude Journal

By Susan | June 4, 2009

Recent customers in the store, Merrily and Betsy (who are life coaches, check out www.lifeisbutadreamcoaching.com) submitted a Personal Practice for our newsletter that suggested starting a Gratitude Journal. The idea is to jot down 3 things at the end of every day that you are grateful for and re-read the list before going to bed. [...]

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Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?

By Susan | May 20, 2009

At the risk of being sued by the network for violating their copyright on the show’s name, I want to ask you, are you smarter than a 5th grader? Think about it. What did you know then and what do you know now? Depending on your age, you could have the advantage (or disadvantage) of [...]

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Extraordinary things begin to happen

By Susan | April 29, 2009

“If someone listens, or stretches out a hand, or whispers a kind word of encouragement, or attempts to understand, extraordinary things begin to happen”: Loretta Girzartis
When I was younger, the words “breast cancer” were never, ever said aloud. Fear, ignorance, superstition; whatever the reason, you never said them. Women went into the hospital for biopsies [...]

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Love Our Mother Earth (and she will love you back!)

By Susan | April 20, 2009

Mother’s Day – the human kind – still gets far more attention than the other Mother’s Day — Earth Day. When I started to conceptualize the store and the products that I would carry, I wanted to find as many “earth friendly” options for customers as possible. In some product lines, like tea, there were [...]

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I see bunnies

By Susan | April 11, 2009

Our son believed in Santa and the Easter Bunny far longer than we dreamed he would. We suspected that it was a combination of delight in the possibility of magic and of fear that the presents and candy would disappear the moment doubt was confessed. He even persevered when the “tooth fairy” forgot the payoff [...]

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Time in a bottle

By Susan | March 27, 2009

The older I get, the more a red eye flight stinks. I had a great time back in sunny SoCal but the price to be paid is fatigue. The fact that I couldn’t sleep on the plane, combined with the readjustment to time zones and the initiation of Daylight Savings time just the week before, [...]

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Meditation is where you find it

By Susan | March 17, 2009

So I’m two months into my meditation practice (does practice imply that I am getting better at it? Okay, maybe meditation experiment would be a better term). I have to confess, I still get a bit of my shopping list organized in my head during the half hour. But I have noticed that the time [...]

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