Dear Friend and Reader: Today marks the official end to my sabbatical. Thank you for a month off from weekly horoscopes, clients and those long essays. This was my first break from the weekly horoscope in five years, and I am happy to be back, with a new perspective on things. Thank you to the … Read more
WHAT IF three years ago, I had predicted that a swath of Asia would be wiped out by an earthquake and tsunami, with more than 229,866 lost or missing, and countless lives disrupted? What if I predicted that a paltry $7 billion in humanitarian aid would be donated, by all the governments and all the … Read more
MY PLAN was for a book called The Starseed Transmissions to fall out of my bag during the job interview. The Starseed Transmissions is a book of channeled messages from an angel, intended to help humanity prepare for the future, that were put on paper by a then-builder named Ken Carey. The job I wanted was as a newspaper … Read more
Dear Friend and Reader: LAST NIGHT my friend asked me to help her deal with a black widow spider. One of the most poisonous species in North America, the critter had made her web below the step leading into the front door, and no matter how many times the web was removed, she would return. … Read more
By Eric Francis TWENTY-FIVE years ago, when I was a high school senior, I was sitting in my room and my mother walked in with a newspaper clipping from The New York Times about a new disease called GRID. This was, I read in our family’s newspaper of record, a disease that was impacting the gay male … Read more