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Some of you who live outside of the Davidson County line may not be aware that my hormones are rollercoastering ( since I've been spreading the news). I'm changing my entire lifestyle to get healthier.. I remember at the beginning of the year my mantra was "health and wealth" and I'll be damn... it's November and the health part is starting to kick in. Now to the wealth.. The other night I dreamed that I was sitting in a hotel room with Donald Trump or maybe it was an amusement park, but he was handing me cash and writing me checks. It was very strange. In the past week, I've dreamt about Brad Pitt,(who wouldn't) and the girl who plays Charlotte on Private Practice and somebody else who has slipped my mind. Wondering if it's the black cohosh or Valerian or some herbal tea I've been drinking. I've been known to have celebrity dreams before like this, oh yah, just remembering the Brad pitt dream.. He and I were a couple and this spaceship th...

So I've started practicing yoga full time and it has saved me from myself yet again. The first time I practiced was in Fort Worth  HERE I was teaching high school English to 6 classes of Freshman in one of the most ill-behaved schools in Texas.. I won't say which one. BUT, I remember going to the doctor complaining that my vision was strange... really it was like when you get really tired and you see kind of shimmery or maybe you've had 5 venti vanilla lattes in one day.. you know, vision like that. Well, he asked me what I did for a living and I told him and he said " You need to quit your job." Your flight or fight response is being triggered about 47 times a day and you never have a chance to get your adrenaline to come down.. normal.. to which I said. "I can't QUIT!! HOW CAN I QUIT????" He said, let me give you something. NOW, I don't take pills very often. In fact, I can take one advil and clear a headache right up, but at this point I was...