{"id":179,"date":"2009-09-07T10:53:40","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T10:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/yourcharmedlife\/2009\/09\/another-new-year.html"},"modified":"2009-09-07T10:53:40","modified_gmt":"2009-09-07T10:53:40","slug":"another-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/yourcharmedlife\/2009\/09\/another-new-year.html","title":{"rendered":"Another New Year&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Labor Day is like another New Year to me. It&#8217;s when school starts and that always seems like a fresh beginning.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Since this is a holiday, I&#8217;ll post on several short bits that I&#8217;m thinking of right now:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Adair China.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/Adair%20China.jpg\" width=\"124\" height=\"166\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left;margin: 0 20px 20px 0\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div>First, China, the little elder dog Nick and Adair plan to adopt. She visited last night and here she is (right)&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"nick and china.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/133\/import\/nick%20and%20china.jpg\" width=\"221\" height=\"166\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right;margin: 0 0 20px 20px\" \/>with Nick &#8212; cute, huh? And, oh, I just got another one: this (left) is China with Adair (there is some family resemblance&#8230;).<\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><\/span>Let&#8217;s see, what else? Oh, I&#8217;m seeing what thick skin it takes to blog. I just read and responded to a comment on the post I did about foie gras and the commenter suggested that I was a &#8220;neo-Nazi.&#8221; Good grief: I don&#8217;t care if somebody disagrees with me, but the name-calling is really nasty. I guess I should count my blessings, though: a friend of mine who blogs actually has a guy making physical threats. The anonymous nature of the &#8216;net seems to be endangering the fine art of dialog, sharing opinions, and talking things out.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I spoke yesterday at Unity of New York City and it was such a lovely going around\/coming around homecoming. The first church I spoke at with <i>Living a Charmed Life<\/i>&nbsp;back in May was Unity Temple on the Plaza in Kansas City. I joined that church when I was nineteen. I joined the church here in New York four years ago. It was so fitting, then, that the tour started where my journey started and ended where I am now.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This is also the day that the campaign for <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.victoriamoran.com\/charmed\">Living a Charmed Life<\/a><\/i>&nbsp;is ending. The site, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.victoriamoran.com\/charmed\">www.victoriamoran.com\/charmed<\/a>, will go down sometime tomorrow (Tuesday, Sept. 8), so if you&#8217;d still like to get the downloadable gifts from Jennifer Louden, Barbara Stanney, John Gray, etc., you&#8217;ll need to buy your book via that site now.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>All these endings are also beginnings for me: going forward, working on the next book, planning a couple of teleclasses, and experiencing the joy of being astoundingly healthy and feeling more alive in profound middle age than ever in my life before.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Let me know what sorts of things you want to see in this blog going forward. I&#8217;ll comply to the best of my ability. Several times a week I will have to respond to the &#8220;news of the day&#8221; &#8212; the pop culture or political stuff that&#8217;s getting a lot of search engine action. It&#8217;s the surest way to grow this blog and keep its readership up to Beliefnet standards. But there&#8217;s also time to do just what you ask for, so let me know what makes you happy.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b><i>Back-to-school life-coaching special: <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: normal\">Have you thought about life coaching as a way to further your dreams and goals? Certified life coach Victoria Moran specializes in spiritual-life coaching and holistic living coaching. She can help you change your diet, revamp your attitude, get &#8220;unstuck,&#8221; and move toward your dreams. There&#8217;s more information at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.victoriamoran.com\/coaching\">www.victoriamoran.com\/coaching<\/a>. If you&#8217;re interested, contact Monica McCarthy, charmedassistant@aol.com, to set up a preliminary phone chat with Victoria. Be sure to mention Special Code BTS\/Blog and receive a full 20% off the listed price for your first one-month or three-month coaching retainer. Offer ends October 1.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The back-to-school &#8216;new year,&#8217; a life coaching special, cute dog pix, &amp; dealing with online name-calling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":177,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charmed-life-chronicles"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Another New Year... - Your Charmed Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/yourcharmedlife\/2009\/09\/another-new-year.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Another New Year... - Your Charmed Life\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The back-to-school &#039;new year,&#039; 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