Three Secrets to Good Health
You may wonder what my background is that makes me knowledgeable to blog about health and fitness. Well just to set the record straight, I’m not a fitness consultant or registered nutritionist or...
View ArticleDr Oz Transformation Nation Inspires 1M To Lose Weight for $1 Million
Dr. Mehmet Oz Dr. Mehmet Oz and his “transformation nation” health effort has netted the 1 millionth participant. One of these participants will win a $1 million prize in May. This idea was started...
View ArticleLance Armstrong injected – this time with truth serum by Oprah Winfrey
7-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong finally admitted to cheating by using performance-enhancing drugs, in a one-on-one interview with media mogul Oprah Winfrey. Oprah taped the interview on...
View ArticleShannon Melnyk: In a culture of cynicism, Oprah still reigns
I’m going to meet Oprah when she appears in Vancouver on Thursday. Having grown up with Oprah in my living room and knowing her show is partially responsible for my path as a journalist, this full...
View ArticleVagina Monologues’ author Eve Ensler delivers new frank memoir about cancer,...
Do you remember when you first heard about the play The Vagina Monologues? I certainly do. It made me nervous. Because when you got right down to it I didn’t even like to think about my own yoni (yes,...
View ArticleTheatre review: Bullet Catch and PostSecret explore the arts of human connection
I saw two fascinating theatre pieces this past week—neither was what I would call a play exactly. Both ultimately concern human connection. One is life affirming but artistically problematic. The other...
View ArticleI don’t have my own kids, and that’s OK
When I was around 20 or 21 years old, my mother announced to a small gathering on her patio, “Dana will never have kids.” I remember feeling a little hurt and thinking: “What? Really?” Two decades (or...
View ArticleNice guy Jeff Bridges brings his band to town
After almost 25 years in the business of interviewing people, I have talked to everyone from a 12-year-old horseshoe throwing champion to a Nobel Prize winning scientist to Bill Cosby. (Yes, I talked...
View ArticleThanks Dave: now what am I going to do with the extra hour?
It made me happy watching David Letterman twist the newly tattooed arm of Justin Bieber when he guested on The Late Show in 2012. Let’s face facts, Dave just did what many of us wanted to do: give...
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