From the monthly archives:

January 2010

No-diet weight loss: Three simple steps to success

January 12, 2010

How to eat exactly what you want, never diet again, lose weight, and be slim, sensual and happy with yourself. A couple of days before the New Year, I’m staying with a South African couple in Sonoma. “I had a terrible night. Felt ghastly. Couldn’t sleep. And my numbers are right out of the box.” [...]

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I’m outta here! When resigning is harder than getting the boot – Part 4

January 10, 2010

Continued from Part 3 of When resigning is harder than getting the boot. Baskas is well aware there are a lot of people working jobs they hate — and that common for people to be have their identity so invested in their job that they stay there. “I know some people don’t have choice. But [...]

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I’m outta here! When resigning is harder than getting the boot – Part 3

January 10, 2010

Continued from Part 2 of When resigning is harder than getting the boot. Shifting gears — and the Big Question plus the answer that directed her new career. “After I finished the one big deadline project I had when I left the radio station, I sat down and thought: ‘If I didn’t have to work, [...]

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I’m outta here! When resigning is harder than getting the boot – Part 2

January 9, 2010

Continued from Part 1 of When Resigning is harder than getting the boot. Baskas says it took her a year to leave. “It was hard,” she remembers. Looking back, she says she can see that she was afraid to walk away. What nagged her was: “If I don’t have that structure, the title and the [...]

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I’m outta here! When resigning is harder than getting the boot – Part 1

January 8, 2010

Choosing to leave your job can be tough when it’s who you are and not simply what you do. I met Seattle–based journalist Harriet Baskas in New Zealand. The pair of us, along with four other journos, were invited guests on a media trip covering an Air New Zealand promo (see Sex, Social Media and [...]

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Cuisine Noir – Delicious Life: Want to live longer & have a flavor-filled life?

January 1, 2010

Learn to love olive oil. (Delicious Life column, Cuisine Noir magazine, January 2010 issue) Obsessing over olive oil can be good for your health. In fact, this is one addiction that you’d be wise to cultivate. Why? Because it can add years, as well as flavor to your life. Research has shown that the Mediterranean [...]

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