The Body Blog

My house is spanking clean today.  My Brazilian cleaners are as fastidious about creating a meticulous house as they are about creating a perfectly sculpted body. First "Julia" got her nose done. For months every time she cleaned she complained to me that her nose was too fat and round. She wanted a leaner line. So she set up an appointment with a plastic surgeon specializing in noses. Read More

When Sachiko Knappman conducted her first Japanese tea ceremony she prepared tea for herself when she was ready to serve it. After much training, she realized that the person she was preparing it for had to be ready to receive the tea. This took observation, timing, sensitivity and grace -- which she learned later. Read More

Just when I've eschewed my Jimmy Choo's I read about Stiletto Spy School for Women. http://www.stilettospyschool.com/ Power has always been sexy -- for men. But when a woman is called powerful it's often code for Bitch. When you combine sexy with power you get the potent combustion of a femme fatale, a woman who is feared and desired. Men may even relish being controlled by her while conspiring to take her down. Think Angelina Jolie in the movie Mr. & Mrs. Smith and the current film Salt. Of course, unlike most of us, Angelina Jolie, is sexy in sneakers. Read More

 Forget about being beautiful. Be funny.  When you can take the focus off yourself you can express your talents and connect with people as the maverick Isabella Rossellini shows us in her films called green por.no about the sex lives of insects. Read More

I hate serving size lies. Food manufacturers may think that their suggestions are sensible. Perhaps they are... for people who nibble, taste or sample. But these guidelines don't make sense for people who actually eat. Read More

Women often believe that they must act like men to succeed. They scramble up the corporate ladder by copying traditional male behavior. Although it sometimes buys them temporary "success", most of the time, on a deeper level, it doesn't work. They frequently find themselves dissatisfied, restless, and ultimately unfulfilled. Read More

Every night when I leave the house to go to the dojo to practice Aikido my sweetie Will calls out, "Don't get hurt and don't hurt anybody." I'm not much of a danger to anyone, but some people are a danger to me. Read More

"Our stories are in us from a long time ago," says DeeDee Myers a leadership trainer, triathlete and mother of quadruplets, twins and three other children. One pivotal story happened on her first date at age 16. She met a cute boy at a football game. It was a chilly day so she had on a jacket. When the boy arrived at her house to meet her parents she greeted him at the door and saw the shocked look on his face. Read More

Our bodies don't lie. And when we put ourselves into stressful situations we all revert our conditioned tendencies. Part of these tendencies are patterns we've developed over the years through repetitive thought and action. Read More

David Roche is the pastor of the Church of 80% Sincerity. He has a severe facial deformity that people don't notice so much after he speaks for a while and they get over the shock of it and see his radiance. He says that people with facial deformities wear their shadow on the outside whereas the rest of us wear it on the inside. Read More