Ah, the beginning of a new year. What gifts do we seek? What virtues can we claim in these troubled times?
I find myself trying to simplify as one year winds down and the next revs up. It seems pretty apparent that I’m not going to accomplish all…
When you reach a certain age—as in, over sixty–you recognize that some New Year’s resolutions are just plain stupid. Not all, mind you, but—especially in the diet department–personal history (also known as flop and failure, which in…
Hunger in Montana? It almost seems like a contradiction in terms. How can there be hunger in a state whose financial foundation is based on the growing and distribution of food? Perhaps this is a case of the right hand not knowing what the left hand…
I recently overheard a business owner lamenting that he was spending over $1,400 a month on Yellow Pages advertising with little to show for it. I don’t know what his definition of ‘little to show for it’ was and I don’t think…
The holiday season has ended, bringing the post-holiday doldrums. Though the shortest day too has passed, the days remain short and dark. There are no more parties and gatherings to fill your evenings with laughter. The Vigilante Theatre Company can…
Every year I make a couple of New Year’s Resolutions and I’m lucky to make it to the end of February before breaking them and going back to normal life. However, I can’t do that with my business. Every year there are changes in the economy…
The beginning of a new year often brings a list of improvements to make in our lives. During this time of focus on self-improvement I am often asked by clients how they can find or tune-up their psychic senses, the sixth sense-E.S.P. What seems like…
Every woman wants beautiful healthy skin: ageless, flawless, radiant skin to perfection. Is great skin something we are all born with, or does it like everything else in life, require work? There are some who seem to have flawless skin with very…
There was a feeling that I used to get when I was a kid that was as scary as all get out. We would play Cowboys and Indians in the hills above our house in eastern Montana, and when you were running and then headed down hill and the hill was steeper…
When Canyon River Spa was destroyed by fire in January 2010, Heather Ripplinger’s vision of a holistic and proactive full service spa did not go up in smoke with it. “Everything was destroyed. Only a few things were salvaged such as the copper…
