Bob Makransky of the Magical Almanac Ezine suspects you’re not happy, and guess what? Thinks you should stop trying to think happy thoughts and maybe, just maybe, you should try out being okay with not being happy. Just in time for the feel good holiday season….
It’s that hopefully exciting time of the year again when I give the rundown on some of my favorite things of the past year! This year I take on Oprah, do a video interview with the Mystic Pyramid, and even manage to talk a little bit about some of my favorite things of 2011!
I know it will sound like the start of some sort of silly advertisement, but when I first pulled my copy of “Meditation: The Complete Guide” out of the envelope from New World Library I found myself thinking, “Complete guide? We’ll see about that.” Well consider me soundly put in my place. Click on in to see why!
John Matthews and Caitlin Matthews wrote a book years ago titled “The Winter Solstice: The Sacred Traditions of Christmas”. How many years ago? The book was a 1998 Benjamin Franklin Award winner! I’m happy to say that thanks to the great folks at Quest Books I’m able to share a wonderful piece from that book about “Old Sir Christmas”. Enjoy!
288,000 jelly beans, giant robotic snakes, the new old Polaroid, and more is to found in the latest “Geek Month in Review” from JB Sanders!
Not really “feeling it” this holiday season? Tired of hearing the same old Christmas music wherever you go? Worry not. Writer Marcy Lovitch shares a plethora of wintry and non-denominational treasures that you haven’t heard a million times on Muzac at the mall.
Thanks to Alan Richardson, Marcus Claridge, and Skylight Press you can be introduced to “the odd life and inner work” of William G. Gray, a real magician.
Click on in for 10 questions with Varla Ventura! Not only is she the curator of the new Magical Creatures and Paranormal Parlor lines of ebooks from Weiser books, but she’s also the author of “Beyond Bizarre: Frightening Facts and Blood-Curdling True Tales” and “Book of the Bizarre: Freaky Facts & Strange Stories”! Learn about some unique books and a few “bizarre” facts too!
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, and with that holiday starts for many people a very stressful time of year. For some, tomorrow’s holiday may be less relaxing day off, and more a tension filled exercise in restraint. You know, restraining yourself from telling Aunt Edna what you really think about her vintage coupon collection. As a bit of a preemptive salve to potentially frayed nerves I found something playful, whimsical, and all around anti-stress inducing, the “Cat’s Eye Tarot” by Debra M. Givin, DVM and published by U.S. Games Systems.
Amy Ahlers, the Wake-Up Call Coach, is on a mission to wake up your Inner Superstar so you shine bright. Today’s article “Ditch Your Inner Critic: Five Practical Ways to Stop Beating Yourself Up So your Inner Superstar is Free to Shine” is based on her new book “Big Fat Lies Women Tell Themselves: Ditch Your Inner Critic and Wake Up Your Inner Superstar”.
