Articles by Kate Loving Shenk

Sometimes you find a book that fits everything you've ever thought a book should be. No one told me about "The Memory Keeper's Daughter," by Kim Edwards. But I knew I was about to undertake a grueling several days and I wanted a good book to escape to.

I hung out with my old dog Mukunda, today, as I do every day. I took him to my friend Ellen's house and we exchanged the Mechano treatment, only after we tossed a few rounds of ball and marveled at how well Muki ignored Aslom, the cat.

My name is Kate Loving Shenk of Nursing Career Transformation and a Staff Registered Nurse in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. As a Health Care Professional, I see people who are between jobs, who are in retirement, or starting a new business, or who want to go back to school, or move from one job to another; and they lose health coverage in the process, sometimes with catastrophic results when accidents or acute health conditions occur during these times.

Gender and race in Politics: Is it real Is it important Is it a distraction Is it a way to divide and separate people from important discourse and meaningful discussion Or when someone blurts out a statement that is innocent enough, and then is twisted and pigeon-holed into race and gender stereotypes, I have to wonder--are these statements bringing controversies out of the proverbial closet and making people look carefully at themselves Or instead of looking at themselves, allow buttons to be pushed, become angry and take to making self-righteous commentary, as Keith Olbermann did the other night in response to Geraldine Farraro's remarks that started by saying that if her name was Gerald instead of Geraldine, she never would have been chosen to be Walter Mondale's running mate in the 1980's.

Magic Becky and Mooie Infinity, Second Life identities, joined forces again to commemorate Becky Rhone-Nowlan's new Electronic book entitled: Secrets Of The Second Fortune. This book is about Customer Service in the Internet business world and explains that when we nurture our customers, we are perhaps doing the greatest service of all.

21 days of Complaint Free Living is an exercise in facing the fear, guilt and blame of the ego and replacing these with compassion, fearlessness and courage of the love which is eternal, residing in our deepest well of creative expression.

Happiness: the elusive life ingredient we all seek and only find when letting go of the need to have it. The need to be happy versus the act of being happy in the moment is the great balancing act of a life time.

My husband Tom had a heart attack 14 years ago today, in the worst winter in memory. Ice storm after ice storm plummeted Pennsylvania, and particularly Lancaster County. Hours before the infarction, we used chains to get our van out of an icy ditch.

I was recently drawn to the book: "Merv: Making the Good Life Last." Aside from the fact that Merv Griffin was a business genius, as one of my Second Life friends recently pointed out, I was struck by how Merv lived his life from a level of pure gut instinct.

Resentments kill, so says Bill W., founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. Bill W. made the simple realization that resentments are the downfall of all alcoholics, and I daresay, all human beings. Resentments are an immediate red flag that a person is sinking to "dry drunk" status, no matter if that person ever had a drink in their entire lives, or not.