If ‘The Spiritual Tourist’ is any kind of travel guide, Westerners don’t have a prayer By Leigh E. Rich The Spiritual Tourist: A Personal Odyssey Through the Outer Reaches of Belief By Mick Brown Bloomsbury Publishing $24.95 This may be a “personal odyssey” for British author and journalist Mick Brown, but for the rest of […]
08.27.1998
08.23.1998
Journalist sees signs of worldwide upheaval By Leigh E. Rich The Future in Plain Sight: Nine Clues to the Coming Instability By Eugene Linden Simon & Schuster $25.00 The new millennium approaches, and with it all the soothsayers and prophets predicting what our near future holds. While most of these diviners sell us half-cocked ideas […]
07.16.1998
Author Emily Colas washes her hands of obsessive-compulsive disorder By Leigh E. Rich Just Checking: Scenes from the Life of an Obsessive-Compulsive By Emily Colas Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster $22.00 Emily Colas’ special talent in life, as she readily admits in her first book, Just Checking, is her “endless capacity to keep a worry alive.” […]
12.04.1997
Can’t pin down these pin-ups By Leigh E. Rich Imagine our surprise when the latest pin-up calendar appeared in the office. We were shocked and a bit confused, hovering above the images, unsure what to make of all those women. All 12 months and not one cleavage shot. It’s mind-boggling. We’d like to think the Women Firefighters 1998 Calendar ushers […]
