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"The Little Lens That Should" Squidoo Lens Booster Club!

This is the new Squidoo Lens Booster Club - supporting hidden gems of remarkable significance!

Many of the finest Squidoo members create wonderful lenses which for some reason never attract much traffic. However, these lenses should be seen! They we...

☃ Simplify the Holidays

It's so easy to get caught up in the hectic shopping season during the holidays, that often the true meanings of Thanksgiving, Christmas and other winter celebrations get lost. Here are a few ideas to help us all slow down, relax and enjoy the spirit...

10 Ways To Naturally Lower Your Blood Sugar

Lowering your blood sugar is important to avoid pre-diabetes, diabetes, insulin resistance and overweight issues. Lowering your blood sugar naturally keeps your health vital and strong.

Here's how it works: You eat something and the stomach and...

500 Hats On Squidoo

The downturn in the economy has been rough on everyone. I work in many facets of the retail industry, so I've had a loss of work and income.

My husband and I have been keeping the plates spinning for a long time, but as you know, if one plate gets o...

A Christmas Tree in the White House by Gary Hines

This book for children is based on true facts about one Christmas in the White House with President Theodore Roosevelt and his children. The children wanted a cut tree for the White House but President Roosevelt insisted that they set an example for...

A Complete Digg How-To - All the Digg Tips You'll Need

Digg.com is a very exciting place. There are new articles submitted every 15 seconds.

Digg provides a wide array of opportunities for it's users and you will soon learn what I mean.

Welcome to the complete Digg dot com how to. I am your host sammy6...

About Twttrstrm.com

It's called Twttrstrm (we didn't have enough money to buy vowels). It stands for TwitterStorm.

Ask a question of your Twitter followers and easily gather all their answers in one spot.

It is a Squidoo plug in and a stand alone site that allows any...

Add Your Profile - Make New Friends

Social Bookmarking; Web 2.0; Squidoo - All great new ways to promote your content. Squidoo Lensmasters love to promote their lenses with these sites. Use this site to Add Your Profile address and find other lensmasters profiles on the respective book...

Advanced Fly Tying DVD | Power Streamers

Creating a fly tying video proved to be a challenging winter project when my husband gave me a camcorder for Christmas. I innocently thought it would be a fairly simple and straightforward project.

Bern wanted me to film him tying streamers he gradu...

Advanced HTML for Squidoo

The techniques shown here aren't much more advanced then what's in the Basic HTML tutorial. The code being used isn't any more special. But the results and presentation can appear to be more sophisticated. Hence it being the Advanced HTML tutorial. F...

Adventures in Sacred Geometry

Imagine being able to explore alternate realities without using drugs, to travel through time and space and play in the realm of spirit.

What if you could use the mysterious power of creation to manifest the invisible into form?

With Sacred Geometr...

Amazing Angel Falls - Great-grandfather Of All Waterfalls.

In the 'Lost World' setting of the Venezuela Highlands,Angel Falls plunge over 3000 ft into nearly impenetrable jungle.

Jimmie Angel had no urge to carve his name on the map when he nosed his little Flamingo plane up that weirdly wonderful Venezuela...

Amazing Healing Properties of Chia Seeds

When I was in my early 20's I was diagnosed with Graves Disease or Hyperthyroidism. However, it took three different doctors to figure out why my energy was so low and why I was gaining weight even though I ate like a bird. I was so uncomfortable wit...

Americans - Vote Change - Please Vote Third Party

Why vote third party?

To ensure your vote counts:

 As Theodore Roosevelt said "The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elem...

Animoto on Squidoo - So Easy Even I Can Do It!

It's true! Using Animoto to make music videos from digital photos is so easy, even I can do it!

It's no secret that I'm not the sharpest pencil in the pocket protector when it comes to techie-type stuff. I consider video very technie, thus very inti...

Art Cards Originals and Editions from 0ctavias0fferings

In modern life we don't tend to have large walls on which to hang works of art so if you have a love of paintings, miniature artworks can be a great way to satisfy your desires.



ACEO - art cards editions and originals - are always 2.5 inches by...

Article Writing The Easy Way

You've probably heard of the effectiveness of article marketing in generating targeted website traffic and increasing Goggle PR. You've also most likely heard or read somewhere how a guy made thousands per day using article marketing alone, and how a...

August Rush

The opening words to the movie set the mood and tell us the most important thing about this story:

"Listen. The music. Can you hear it? I can hear it everywhere. In the wind. In the air. In the light. It's all around us. All you have to do is open y...

Australia: Tips for Tourists

Australia is a funny place. Most tourists know very little about our country before they arrive here. Isolated down here between the Pacific and Indian Oceans, we are an island of mystery and adventure.

There's a lot of misconceptions about Australi...

Avatar Collectibles

Collectibles are what you like to collect. They don't have to be original artworks by Michealangelo or rare jade ornaments from Ancient China. I like posters, mugs and Tee Shirts for instance, and I'm getting together some items from Avatar.

And not...

Basic HTML for Squidoo

Before you start reading all this, you may want to open Advanced HTML in a new tab, because you'll be wanting to check it out as soon as you've finished this!

You can use basic HTML in a few of the lens modules.

Mostly used to create hyperlinks (the...

Benjamin Franklin Was A Vegetarian

Benjamin Franklin was a vegetarian.

In his own words:

"When about 16 Years of Age, I happen'd to meet with a Book, written by one Tryon, recommending a Vegetable Diet. I determined to go into it. My Brother being yet unmarried, did not keep House,...

Building Ordinary--Sustainable Community

 

They're known as eco-villages, cohousing or intentional communities. This lens explores several of them and answers these questions:

       What is cohousing?
       What do we mean by sust...

Bulleted and Ordered Lists

You can easily make bulleted or numbered lists in the Text List module. Too easy!

But if you want more control and more of a say on how the information is presented you'll need to learn to use three HTML tags.

Lets say you want to display a list in...

Caramel Candied Apples

"Lemme just talk to you for a second about something
that I think is good for America: caramel apples,...
I had one last night. Delicious."
- Stephen Colbert, host of The Colbert Report

Coated with caramel or candied, an Apple-On-A-Stick is a favorite...

Celebrate What's Right With the World

Our focus dictates what we see, which reinforces our focus, determing what we see. There is much beauty and wonder in the world around us--uplifting validation that we are Spirit, we are connected, and all that before us is sacred!

Accept the challe...

COCONUT - The Tree of Life

The coconut tree plays an important part in every Filipino's life. Some Filipinos live in houses that are all-coconut. Meaning... from the chairs to roof to the furniture to the plates to the wall to the beds to the stairs to the windows... all craft...

Crack the Fortune Cookie Mystery

Find out the unexpected yet fascinating history behind the fortune cookie. Make your own delicious chocolate covered custom fortune cookie, add a personalized message, or pick from a selection of fortune cookie sayings. Be sure to check out an intere...

Create a Gingerbread House Auction

When we opened our art gallery we decided to do a community service project in our small town. I arranged to have the children in the community build gingerbread houses for a silent auction to benefit the local food bank.

The people in our community...

Create Stunning CSS Backgrounds with Images

Have you heard of CSS Backgrounds? Do you have a Squidoo lens or two? How about a website? A MySpace profile? Are you bored by all those plain old white backgrounds? Here I'm going to show you how to spice up your lenses and pages and create bea...

Creating a Fantasy Realm

Are you writing a fantasy novel? Have you joined NaNoWriMo and don't know what to do next? Do you need to know where your characters live? Need help creating that new world? You can find help here! On this lens are some things that I do when creating...

Creating An Impressive Writing Website

This page gives a broad overview of information you'll need to make a professional-looking writing website.

I originally created this lens as preliminary information for writers participating in my workshop at the 2008 Muse Online Writers Conference...

Creating and Using Your Writer's Notebook

Writers need notebooks. That's where they record all the flash inspirations the Muse sends them.

Thoughts are fleeting.

If you have a good idea for a writing project, you need a place to write it down. The logical place, the place thousands of writ...

Diabetes: Fight the Fright

When I was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes two years ago, it didn't take long for the "FR" factor to set in: Frustrating, Frightening, and NOT FREE.

I try to be a "good Diabetic," meaning I count carbs, exercise and make regular visits to the endo, d...

Do Animals Go To Heaven?

Do Animals Go To Heaven? Animals must go to Heaven, or else where is that spirit that animated them while they were alive on earth? We are strongly connected to our pets emotionally, as they become members of our families. They were created as we wer...

Editing suggestions for your lenses - to give your lens a lensrank boost

Lenses get payed out based on average lensrank of each lens over the whole month.

Since lensrank is based, at least partly, on how often lenses get edited - this lens is here to give you some ideas about what to do when you go over your least edited...

Elemental Hexagons Oracle Cards

The Elemental Hexagons deck is an oracle deck based on the Periodic Table of the elements. It is somewhat like a Tarot deck in that all of the Major Arcana cards are represented, but none of the Minor Arcana are. The deck consists of 60 cards, where...

Emergency Survival & Evacuation Planning

Most people don't expect to be forced from their home by disaster, but it can happen. By then it is too late to prepare.

In July 2007 a forest fire broke out less than a mile from my home, and I had to get ready to leave in case the fire came my way...

Evil Broccoli Salad

Chopped up broccoli florets make up most of this tasty salad, but some of the other ingredients include bacon, raisins, sunflower seeds, and cashews. This lens contains a little history of my recipe, and I have variants, including a way to make it co...

Facial tic or Hemifacial spasm?

Our daughter struggled with hemifacial spasm for almost ten years. She eventually underwent a successful microvascular decompression at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, PA. Kathy is now spasm-free! Hooray! What joy to see that beautiful smil...

Fan the Flame: Help Spread the Squidoo Fire!

Have you ever come up with one idea spark after another, untll you felt like a cat with its tail on fire? Same here. Squidoo offers creative lensmasters helpful tools to set those sparks ablaze, but they'll take plenty of fanning, too.

Sometimes tod...

Fashionable Raincoats

Growing up in Northeastern Ohio meant it was overcast probably 88.5% of the time ... that meant a good deal of rain. I sure do remember that bright yellow hooded raincoat I wore as a child. Later I progressed to a slicker and then a trench coat. I'm...

Festival of the Inner Light

There's a new winter holiday. It's called the Festival of the Inner Light. Come along on a new adventure -- a winter-long holiday of spiritual and creative growth.



I'm looking forward to the 2009 winter holiday season... and another three mo...

Fight Toxic Mold By Going Green

If you are exposed to mold over a long period of time you can end up with the growth of mold within your nose, sinus cavities, bronchial passages and lungs.

Are you suffering from exposure to mold? If you experience any of the following symptoms you...

Fighting Child Protective Services False Allegations

Fight CPS is a family rights website that seeks to assist parents and others who are falsely accused of child abuse and neglect.

This lens clarifies family rights issues and explains why I choose to try to help families who have been torn apart by C...

FREE Healthy Habits Motivational Guidebook

Get an expert Healthy Habits Motivational Guide FREE from a Certified Health Coach!

This unique guidebook was designed to help you set personal health and wellness goals, focus on ways to increase physical activity, eat healthier and change your li...

Free Squidoo Images & Decorations

Free Squidoo Images, Banners, and Ribbons | Need to dress-up your lens, blog, or webpage? Well, you've come to the right place.

Fresh Squid Graduation Class September 2008

Fresh Squid Headquarters was created on September, 15th 2008 and in it's first 15 days it featured 51 lenses by 51 Fresh Squids!

Each of these newcomers to Squidoo had to comply to certain rules that were listed both on group's page and on Fresh Squ...

Fun With Boxes: Cardboard Crafts for Kids

Recycling begins at home in a variety of simple, fun projects. In the beginning, you have two choices: You can either dump recyclables in a designated bin for pickup or deliver them yourself to a recycling center; or you can think creatively and find...

Get Paid to Take Surveys

So, you want to learn how to make money online for free? Then you have found the right lens.

I am a stay at home mom that wanted to find a way to earn a little extra money while still making my children my number one priority. It is completely possi...

gia combs-ramirez

She is actually me. I am an energy healer, soul intuitive, writer and teacher. I have cofounded a subtle energy technique called Crystalline Consciousness Technique and am developing it into a world wide phenomena. I have also developed a unique High...

Go PT, Start Your Permanent Tourist Lifestyle

As a PT, a permanent tourist, you can usually live and travel in better style and for less money than it costs to remain where you are. You can also chose to enjoy places that encourage the life style you have always dreamed of living.
 

As a Per...

Heal Insomnia with Simple Remedies | Take Care of Sensory Overwhelm and Sleep Better

Sleep is a time when your body heals, refreshes itself and gets information from your subconscious and other dimensions. It's invaluable to your mental, physical, emotional and spiritual health.

Generally, as you get older you need less sleep, but y...

Heal, Manifest and Transform with Crystalline Consciousness Technique

Crystalline Consciousness Technique is a relatively new subtle energy protocol that can be used for healing, manifesting and raising consciousness. It's easy to learn, whether you're a newcomer or a seasoned healing arts practitioner.

If you...

Heifer International: The Pay It Foward Entrepreneurial Charity

The saying goes, "If you want to feed a man for a day, give him a fish. If you want to end his hunger, teach him to fish."

Heifer International is the perfect example of how this wise saying works. The give the fish to get someone started, but then...

Holiday Blues - Feeling Sad, Lonely or Depressed During the Holidays?

For many people instead of the holidays being a time when "the days are merry and bright," they are more likely to be experiencing the blues for many different reasons.

For some people the holiday season can be a very difficult time time of...

How To Find Lenses and Groups on Squidoo

Searching for Squidoo lenses on a search engine can be a real pain sometimes, as the results are very often filled with non-content pages like tags. Finding the best groups for your lens to join can also be very tricky.

Here I provide two custom sea...

How to Get Motivated to Achieve Your Goals

We all know what we would like to achieve to make our lives a little happier and a little easier. For some it might be losing weight, for others quitting smoking. Perhaps you want to change jobs but figure now is just not a good time. Many times thes...

How To Include "The Ever Project" Lenses In The Featured Lens Module

Have you wanted to include your Ever Project lenses in featured lenses modules, only to find that you are limited to lenses with the squidoo.com domain?

Well, you can have your cake and eat it, too!

You can indeed feature your Ever Project lenses,...

How to make a Perfect Omelette

I have always wanted to help those who wanted to learn how to make a perfect omelette.I have grown up eating omelettes ever since I was a first grader. Till date, my love for omelettes has never ceased. If I had my way, I could have omelettes for br...

How To Paint A Cat Lady

For the past two years I have been creating colorful watercolor paintings of Cat Ladies (and Lads!) in a whimsical, illustrative style. Many are custom portraits of Cat Ladies from across the country and as far away as Great Britain, Greece and Finla...

How to START carving a pumpkin

Ah Halloween! Fear stalks the land and parents look forward with dread...

... to trying to light the jack-o-lantern without burning their fingers.

Tradition demands you thrust a lit candle down into the pumpkin. Hey, that burnt flesh smell is part...

How To Use Friend Feed

Friend Feed is a Web 2.0 feed amalgamation site that allows you and others to comment on your online activities. There's an easy registration. You log on, add as many feeds as you'd like, then connect with your friends.

With FriendFeed you can find...

How To Use Social Media To Promote Single Payer Healthcare

Pennsylvania is on the forefront of getting a Guaranteed Healthcare for All Bill passed here in the Commonwealth.

However, the National and Local Media outlets will not cover this story.

I am apart of a grass roots movement here in the state to ge...

How to Write an Article that Powerfully Drives Traffic To Your Website

To People Who Want To Write - But Can't Get Started

Here is a process that is useful in creating articles that are designed to be of quality, high value and will have a higher rate of follow through by the reader.  This process will easily genera...

Hungry Squidz Choice Awards

Can you make a beautiful lens? Do you have a fabulous recipe that you want to share with the world? That's all it takes! Oh, and for us to notice you.The Hungry Squidz will be on the lookout for beautiful recipe lenses. When one catches our eye , it...

I Lost 50 Pounds in 6 Months

I've lost over 50 pounds over a six month period. At one point I weighed 235 pounds but with a good diet and nutrition, I was able to shed 53 pounds. This is how I did it and how you can do it too.

Like many, I've struggled with my weight. Until I w...

I Sold my Childhood on eBay

eBay, at its core, is about buying and selling. But what are we really trading? Is it just the china bowl or the My Little Pony? Or is it something deeper within ourselves?

Here's a silly, existential analysis of my eBay selling experience.

Imagine Peace Headquarters

Imagine Peace Group

Imagine all the people, living life in peace.

These words of peace and hope were penned by John Lennon more than 30 years ago.

The Imagine Peace group assembles the peace keepers, peace makers and people for peace...your fri...

Increase Your Green Consciousness

Consider the following: Going green is the most important issue that will shape our future-we have reached a tipping point on the environment. Going green is about our kids, our families, our lives. Investing in green will be to the twenty-first cent...

Isaac's Journal

Help write an incredible story based on fictional journal entries! What's it about? This is the interesting part! It can be about whatever comes to your mind. This is a compilation of many different people giving their ideas for this story.

This wil...

JaguarJulie Contest

For a while now I've been noticing that every where I go in Squidoo, JaguarJulie's been there ahead of me. It got me thinking...just how many fanclubs has she joined?

The title for this lens is based on the game "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" where yo...

Jellycat

Just look at these cute little sweathearts. Jellycat, which is located in England, began selling soft plush toy animals in 1999 and they are now being sold in North America.

The company strives to make soft toys that are innovative, fun, exciting an...

Keep Kids Organized: Storage Solutions and Declutter Tips

Let me first start off by saying that I'm not judging anyone here! Some people just naturally lean toward being neat and organized, and others may live in 'organized chaos' ...or maybe you fall somewhere in between. It's all good!

BUT...the simple p...

Lama Surya Das

The name he was given by his American birth parents was Jeffrey Miller. His family was Jewish. After graduating with honors from college in NY, he traveled throughout Europe and the East. He has spent nearly thirty years studying Zen, vipassana, yoga...

Late Talking Children - The Einstein Syndrome

The Einstein Syndrome (coined by Sowell and Camarata) helps explain a certain group of late talking children. This page is inspired by my late talking son and I hope to enlighten other parents the theory. Although I have never had my son diagnosed, h...

Legends of The Tree of Life

The Tree of Life is a Universal symbol found in many spiritual traditions around the world. It symbolizes life itself, with it's branches reaching for the Heavens "Father Sky" and it's buried roots, linking to "Mother Earth".

Many ancient mythical s...

Life as a Foster Child

This is my story as a foster child. I hope it helps someone understand us, especially the foster parent. I hope it makes the case workers really listen to us. I hope it changes the system, but I'm afraid it won't.

Lucky-Our Rescue Cat

He is a rescue cat. He was rescued with 14 other cats from a person that was neglecting them. The lady that rescued them, nursed them back to health. Two of them did not make it.

Lucky made it

We named him Lucky.

His full name is:

All the cat...

Making Fun of Sarah Palin - Has Political Humor Crossed the Line?

Making fun of political candidates isn't anything new and with the arrival of Sarah Palin on the scene, the comedians are out in full force. It's expected, but is it right? What about when the families of the candidates are included in the so...

Mask-Making Made Easy

I love masks!  I have made and collected masks for the last twenty-five years.  Here I  share some of my how-tos for mask-making with pictures and crafting tips.  Plus other mask-related goods and goodies!

The mask shown here was...

Michelle Obama's 1st Tour of Duty

July 4, 2006,

Dear Mrs. Obama,

I am in the middle of reading your husband's book, The Audacity of Hope. My heart is swelling and my brain is being stimulated in ways not usually associated with political writing. I have just come to the part where...

Mission: Possible - Becoming a Giant Squid in 2009

Attention Giant Squid Greeters,
Giant Squid Community Organizers,
and Citizen Squid Mentors...

Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to welcome new lensmasters to the Squidoo community, answer questions and offer assistance to struggling...

Montessori, Independence and Self-Esteem

What drew me to Montessori as an educator was how children are shown how to build themselves as human beings. Adults are mere guides in their lives, lending support when needed. One of the first curriculum areas in a Montessori classroom a child is i...

Muscle Testing | An Easy Way To Get Answers to Life's Big and Little Questions

You're driving to work and traffic is kind of bad. Should you take the freeway or get off on a side road? You'd like to improve your health by taking supplements. You visit the local health food store and are overwhelmed by all the choices j...

My Claim To Fame

Do you have a claim to fame, anything you have done to give you notoriety? Your claim to fame might be the result of having someone famous in the family, or as a friend, having met a famous person, or having taken part in a special event, appeared on...

My Daily Om

I belong to Daily om. It is a website with all kinds of spiritual related thoughts and people.

It is a great place to get your daily om for the day.

A daily om is a thought to ponder for the day, spiritual food to take in and digest and use or not....

My Experience With The Jazzercise "Know More Diet"

I never thought I'd write about a weight-loss plan of any kind, but having tried a number of programs at various times during my yo-yo-ing life (calorie-counting, Adkins, the Weight Watchers system on my own), this one is my favorite and a method...

My First Aquarium

Well I have made the decision to get my very own freshwater aquarium. I remember when I was a young child having a fish tank in the living room. My mother was a fish fanatic (she's a Pisces as well) and we had hours of fun watching the little fishies...

My Reiki and Spiritual Journey

First of all, you might be wondering what reiki is.

rei means God
ki means life force energy

It aids in relaxation and stress reduction. How? You simply place your hands on someone and a healing energy comes through your hands. Touch is healing in...

My Top 10 Divination Tools

The rest of you, operating through the subconscious and the unconscious, holds tremendous amounts of wisdom. Accessing that wisdom through divination tools, when you are making a decision, can give you a better picture of what you need to do or new i...

NaNoWriMo: Reaching 50,000 using EelKat's Methods

NaNoWriMo 2009 will be my 5th year at NaNo. So far I've had 4 years and 3 wins and this year I'm going for my fourth win.

I failed my first year (2005) ...did like 2,000 before I got bored with my plot.

I did 183,000 my second year (2006) ... kind...

Native American Art and Culture~The Sioux Nation

There are Four branches to the Sioux Tribe:
The Teton (native name; Lakota) is the oldest Ancestral branch and includes; Ogalala, Brule (sicangu), Hunkpapa, Miniconjou, Oohenonpa, Itazipco (Sans Arcs), and Sihasapa.

The Second branch is the Santee S...

Neil Diamond

Growing up in the 80s and 90s, I had enjoyed listening to Neil Diamond. Normally people my age didn't listen to him, but I did. I don't know if its because I grew up being an only child or what. My first taste of Neil was in fact from the Movie "The...

Newbery Medal Winners, 1930-1939

During the 1930s, Newbery winners were mainly fiction, with a few fictionalized biographies and non-fiction titles. The quality of children's literature started to improve though it was nowhere near the high standards expected of writers today. Still...

Norman Cousins: The Man Who Laughed In The Face of Death

Have you ever been in a bad mood? Have you ever been in a bad mood when someone got you to laugh? Have you ever been in a bad mood when someone got you to laugh and you stayed in a bad mood? No? Well join the world!

Ok, so we know that laughing can...

Nurture Your Creativity

Through a story about discovering enthusiasm as a child, this lens explores self concept as a key to unblocking the ability to self nurture. Nurturing your creativity starts by nurturing your self concept or maybe it is the other way around. When sel...

OBAMA Inspires Peace

The Time is NOW ! ACT ! NowPower !
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Being So Inspired, and with much Attention to Detail, I Designed this Obama GoldStar Peace Illustration. (Choose from 2 Background Colors: Royal Blue & Blue).
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May this Design Bring Peace to You, Your Friends and...

Obama's Daughters

Can you image what it would be like to stand next to your parents and watch them mark ballots that select your father for the Presidency of the United States?

I first remember when Caroline and John-John were in the White House. I was 12. I was for...

Online Appointment Scheduling for Businesses

Do you have a service based business that clients book appointments for? Harness the power of online appointment scheduling!

NEW!!! Now you can enable your clients to schedule appointments online for your services, in real time 24/7/365.

Hi I'm Bra...

Origami Phizz Units - math crafts at home

This is a lens devoted to showing and explaining what a PHiZZ unit is and how much fun can be had from them.

PHiZZ unit stands for 'Pentagon, Hexagon, Zig Zag' unit. (I don't know where the i comes from, but it sure makes it sound more fun.) The Zig...

Predictions for 2009 through 2012, and Beyond

This lens features predictions for the years 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015. More years will be added when predictions become available.

Coming soon: A New Year!! I will be going through the Coast to Coast AM predictions list when Art B...

Qigong (Chi Kung ) For Health

The word Qigong (pronounced chi kung) is a combination of two ideas: "Qi" means air, breath of life, or vital energy of the body, and "gong" means the skill of working with, or cultivating, self-discipline and achievement. The...

Reflections of my Soul

Welcome to my lens of poetry and other inspirations.

Inside Your Garden
From "Reflections of my Soul" by Patricia Sanders

"Inside your garden
Of beauty
I kiss you
Kisses filled of honey"

In the dawn
Of beginning
I touch you
W...

Rumi Makes a GREAT Romantic Gift

I can think of no better romantic gift than Rumi. "Light the lamp of devotion with the oil of me."

Rumi was born in Central Asia in 1207. His father Baha'aldin Veled was a noted Sufi master. The most significant relationship and turning point in Rum...

Rustic Goth

My original dark art paintings and prints have been described as; sad and surreal, raw and emotional, macabre and brut.

Yet, there is a ray of hope in each one!

Seasonal Affective Disorder

Seasonal Affective Disorder, also known as SAD, is a type of depression that can occur with the oncoming of fall and winter. The shorter days and longer nights can trigger a reaction in the body which can cause lethargy, lack of energy or motivation,...

Seasons Greetings from Las Vegas

To help promote the idea of a cleaner, greener holiday season, I'm trying something new this year: this multimedia greeting card.

The elements on the page certainly reflect my particular background and experiences.

Yet whether you celebrate Christm...

Seth Godin Transformed

...meanwhile, over in an alternate universe, a young Seth Godin grows up into a successful web guru...then evolves...

Simple Techniques to Improve Communication Immediately

My life has been one of communication challenges. I have lived in two cultures most of my adult life (and I don't mean man and woman). My husband and I speak Spanish, yet my children and I speak English. My son is dyslexic which presents all kinds of...

Squid Angel Blessings by Chef Keem

With a Squid Angel Blessing your lenses will get a boost for your lens rank, which might improve your earnings and lead to more traffic and recognition. Not bad, huh? But what does it take to receive a Squid Angel Blessing?

In general, our group of...

Squid Etiquette

Squid Etiquette is all about what to do and what NOT to do on Squidoo! It is a very different How To Squidoo than you have probably seen before.

In our enthusiasm to not only publish our first few Squidoo lenses but also get traffic, we may forget...

Squidoo Tools, Resources, and Guides

Squidoo Tools, Guides, Lens addons, Linkbuilding tips, and news

This is a collection of free Squidoo tools, guides, and other resources to help you build and market your Squidoo Lenses.

I will also continue to gather various addons that you can ad...

Squidoo Traffic Tricks: (how to get more visitors and a better search engine ranking for your Squidoo lens)

Do you have some lenses that don't get as many visitors as they deserve?

Would you like to learn how to get more people reading your lenses?

Wanna know how to make people come back to your lenses again and again?

Would you like to rank higher in G...

Strange But Real Businesses in Montana

Q. Want to know how to make a small fortune?

A. Move to Montana with your large fortune!

I can always pick a Montanan out of the crowd. They are the ones holding down 3-5 jobs, all of them creative and unique.

Montanans are a highly, individualist...

Stretch For Health | Free eBook

Before becoming a facilitator of healing through energy, I was a massage therapist. In the early 90s, I was continually looking for stretches that would help my body so that I could stay physically healthy with the demands of my vocation. Overtime, I...

Stylish Clothing for the Disabled

I have Cerebral Palsey---I was never told I couldn't dress like everyone else, even though shoes can make or brake an outfit. So, since the shoe world does not recognize the disabled as a viable market, I am very restricted as to the choices in my wa...

Susan Wants to Study with Seth

So ... I've been trying to figure out what I want to do when I grown up. (40 is grown up, right?) Just restless of late, not feeling as though I really fit in the career skin I've somehow donned. I haven't made it very far in my quest for something n...

Tale of Grace O'Malley, Warrior Woman & Pirate Queen !

The tale of my fellow O'Malley clanswoman Gráinne Ni Mháille, known as Granuaile (pronounced Granya Wale) or more simply, Grace O'Malley, as she is most widely known today, is a tale of a woman's courage, strength and love for high adve...

Tea Bag Folding and Pattern Instructions

Tea bag folding is a paper folding craft developed in Europe. It is similar to origami folding. You use all the basic origami folds such as the boat, the water bomb or the square base. It is as absorbing as origami because your output can be endless....

Ten Must-Read Classics of Great Literature

Because I love to read good books - I want to have the honor of introducing you to ten favorite classic novels that have enchanted and entertained readers for decades.

I feel one of the saddest effects of modern society has been to take young people...

Ten Ways To Use A Tent

It is magical. You put up your tent, crawl in, and experience life from the inside of a new fabric-enclosed space created just for you. You arrange your things, lay back on your air mattress or cot, and look at the ceiling. A sigh of exhilarated rela...

The 14th Dalai Lama: Tibetan leader in exile

Nobel Peace Prize Winner, popularizer of Buddhism and head of the Tibetan Government in Exile. The Dalai Lama's life is a unique convergence of religion, politics and an admirable stand on peace in the face of aggression.

This lens focuses on his l...

The Berlin Wall Falls

Some people may give Ronald Reagan all the credit for the fall of the Berlin wall, others point at Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of glasnost - allowing public criticism of the communist party - for being the cause of the events surrounding...

The Bonpos Discovered Reiki

Tsi Dup Yang Bod is an ancient energetic healing practice from ZhangZhung, an aspect of these precious teachings is known as Reiki here in the United States. Where is ZhangZhung? ZhangZhung (also spelled ShangShung) was an ancient kingdom in central...

The Giant Squid Community Showcase

The Giant Squid Community Showcase blog features the best lenses made by Squidoo's Giant Squids along with tips, lens ideas and useful information for the entire Squidoo community of lensmasters.

This lens is the home of the Choose Your Favorite Gia...

The Giant Squids Interviews

 

I am so excited for the new Giant Squids that it just had to come out in this lens! I want to know who all of them are, how they got be Giant Squids -- to learn about the great (and the harrowing) moments in the process -- if they have any tips...

The Making of: Best Wii Games Ever

Here is a behind-the-scenes look at how the lens Best Wii Games Ever was built, with details of how it was put together and some of the tricks used.

This commercial lens was built to attract visitors to an Amazon aStore featuring some the most popul...

The Map of the Tarot

In this and my other lenses on Tarot I will offer some advice on the use of the Tarot, starting from the position that the reader knows nothing of the nature of the Tarot cards.



This lens is intended to promote The Map of the Tarot, use of which wi...

The Muse Online Writers Conference

This is an annual FREE conference offering a huge variety of online workshops and chats for an entire week in October.

The 2008 conference was a wonderful success. If you missed the opportunity to attend this conference, keep next year's conference...

The Official Squidoo Thanksgiving Cookoff (for Charity)

From Nov 2 to Nov 25th 2009, Squidoo donated $1000 to charity every day. With a $5000 grand prize, awarded by popular vote to Wildlife Forever on behalf of this lens, From the Garden Pumpkin Pie. Read the post here.

Thanks for helping us give away so...

The Science of Thunderstorms and How to Keep Children and Pets from being Afraid of Them

This is about those familiar storms that we experience every Spring. If you are fascinated with, or even scared of, the lightning, rain, and thunder, you may appreciate the information and images of this page.

I also provide helpful information and...

The Secret Life of Lens of the Day

And that's why I'm making this lens. To share with you why, how, what, who, where and all the other stuff that goes into Squidoo Lens of the Day.



Lens of the Day (LotD) is a blog, a newsletter, and a bit of a phenomenon. The latter is not b...

The Share-A-Sale Network

There are currently over 2,000 Merchants in the ShareASale Network. Each of these merchants has a different type of product that they are selling - and each is ready to pay you commission on that sale if you bring a customer to them.

It's really sim...

The Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Award

What's the longest Lens title or Lens page name you have created or seen and we're calling it The Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Award.

Yes, I borrowed this idea from a question on the SquidU Forum. Thank you for the comment by Ener-G that led t...

The Tao of Keywords: How Ancient Philosophy Can Guide Your SEO Efforts

The Tao Te Ching contains the rational basis for human activities, so it provides outstanding guidance for keyword selection and search engine optimization.

The Virgin's Guide To Joshua Tree Climbing

Whether you are coming to Joshua Tree to rock climb, hike, go bird-watching, plant-gazing, or to work(it's a great photographer's location), a little bit of info goes a long way in making the trip more pleasurable.

This guide, though geared toward r...

Time For Us to Rebuild | Barack Obama

This lens showcases just one of the differences that Obama's new style of leadership is creating. His website Whitehouse.gov is an incredible tool inviting your participation, vision and stories.

This lens also showcases many of the great videos tha...

To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee

She said it was a love story, but most people think of it as a great classic of Southern life. She never had another book published, yet this one, written early in life, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961--the highest honor for great literatu...

Top 10 Metaphysical Writers

With so many incredible metaphysical writers out there, how does one pick the top ten? That is the question I'm sitting here pondering at the moment. Obviously, it's completely subjective if I'm picking them SOOOO, I think I'll take a trip down memor...

Top 10 Tips For Increasing Your Intuition

As cool as we think it is to see psychics talking with dead people or seeing into the future, the truth is, even a one-celled bacteria is wired to read the surrounding environment through energy. And that is all that higher sense perception or intuit...

Top songs in Hip-hop, Pop and more!!

I enjoy listening to different types of music everyday. I believe that every song has a meaning of its own. I am going to share with you guys different songs that i enjoy listening to.

Ugly Dogs Need Love Too!

Behold the Roo!

I decided to take over the keyboard today to talk to you about the plight of ugly dogs everywhere. I am fully qualified to speak on this topic because upon meeting me, most people exclaim "That is the ugliest dog I've ever seen." I'm...

Unabashed Self Promotion Headquarters

Using Unabashed Self Promotion To Become Rich and Famous

This group was created for two reasons: 1. To help promote various lenses I created that have to do with self promotion and 2. For you the lensmaster to promote similar lenses that you have cr...

Vincent Van Gogh.

The Dutch Post-Impressionist Artist, Vincent Van Gogh was an extraordinary man. A tortured soul; a turbulent Artist, full of passion. He felt lost and misplaced in his own time. He constantly questioned his self worth and he suffered greatly througho...

Vow Of Nonviolence

We must change ourselves and the world will be changed!

Let us start with the Vow Of Nonviolence!!

"To have at least 100,000,000 people join me (Deepak) in taking a vow of nonviolence in thought, speech and action as soon as possible."

Walking and Making Labyrinths

Lauren Artress, of Grace Cathedral, San Fransico, is credited for bringing the Medieval Labyrinth to America and reviving the ancient spiritual tradition in the United States and Europe.

The Cathedral at Charte had a centuries old Labyrinth which wa...

Warrior Women - Who we are, What we do, How we are

To all my sisters, including those I've not yet met.

This is not a protest march. This is not a plea for anyone's understanding. This is not a sales pitch.


If you're a warrior woman, you may recognize yourself within. If you're not and you're fema...

Website Content Writing Tips for Squidoo, Your Website or Blog

This lens focuses on writing web content that will entertain site visitors, do well in search engine queries, and provide helpful answers to those who seek your information.

If you want your pages to be noticed and to be used as reference pages peop...

Website Traffic: Hands-On Guide To Massive Free Traffic

Website traffic is the lifeline of any website on the Internet. Regardless of whether you sell advertisement, sell your own products, or sell the products of others, you need traffic, and lots of them.

You need 2 things to get good traffic:

• Great web...

What To Do With All Those Seashells?

If you're like me, you find it very difficult to return home from a beach vacation without at least a few shells.  And, generally I lug home way more than "a few".  And, this is all great and wonderful, I love seashells and love h...

Where to Find Free Old Movies and TV Shows

Many of us love those old movies from yesteryear. Since their copyright has expired, they are often freely available on the internet. This lens will show where to view the old movies and TV shows for free.

Who is Jewels of Awe

picture is of
my Mom and me in Mexico riding horses 1980
I was 10 years old

I am a poet, mother, CNA, HHA, RNA, reiki master, hypnotist, lover of dogs, meditator, photographer, oh and I am a red head.

I have been meditating since I was a teenager. I...

Why Buy Real Estate Now?

Most of you who find this page are probably already familiar with Ennis. I am sure that you may own property here or may be wanting to buy something. The news is good for buyers! Prices have adjusted down, inventory is up, selection is great and inte...

Why We Still Love You, Mr Darcy!

He's rude, arrogant and anti-social. Yet he is one of literatures most enduring fictional romantic icons, desired by women throughout the 20th and 21st century.

Mr Darcy, who you might be forgiven for thinking is no longer 'relevant' to the modern f...

WiWon School of Wonders

This school is special! It's school where lensmasters who are Giants or 100 Clubbers pass their knowledge to lensmasters who will become next generation of Giants!

This school will open it's doors to WiWon team members on August 1st, 2009! And we'll...

Wreck This Journal

I came across this book by accident while searching for a Christmas gift and being the mother of two free-spirited, exuberant girls, I immediately loved it. "Wreck This Journal" is not your ordinary journal at all. In fact, the pages prompt you to do...

Young Living - Save Your Health - Save the Planet - Create Abundance

This lens will tell you about the Young Living opportunity and products. Young Living is a very solid company headquartered in the US (Utah), with branches in Japan, Australia, Mexico and Europe. If you have ever considered enjoying a healthier lifes...

Your Energy Fields Protect, Connect and Communicate

Your energy fields are like the atmosphere around the Earth. They protect you from energetic radiation that exists all around us. They act like a second skin. Without an energy field, a person could probably have chronic illnesses, heart problems and...