Sign posts

Over the past week four people have come to me and asked for advice about the direction of their lives. I don’t know how I became the guru of life coaching, but I did the best I could. After all, what could I tell them? Last year I left my successful career as an award-winning journalist…

New ‘PLAN’ for The Siren

Well, it’s big news for your humble Sin City Siren founder and editor. I have been offered a job as the new Southern Nevada director of PLAN (Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada). I am excited to start on this new path in my life (later this month)! It is a journey that began with me…

Happy Friday: When Elephants Fly edition

Well kids, I’m heading out of town to The Last Frontier. Probably not going to have a lot of time for blogging so be patient with my lack of posts and if comments get trapped in limbo. Until then, enjoy this scene from one of my favorite movies: —E

New Green TV thing

So I caught the sneak peak of the new Planet Green channel on TLC last night. They previewed two shows: Wa$ted and Greenovate. Overall, I’m for the concept of more shows educating the public on going green, especially in the more light-hearted way of Wa$ted, which shows participants how out of control their carbon footprint…

Shopping for charity

You know how much I love it when you can do double-duty with your shopping dollars. If you are going to buy something anyway and can give a portion of that money to charity why wouldn’t you? So I’m always happy to spread the news of new ways to do just that. At nonprofitshoppingmall. com,…

Spring fever

So how’ve you been? Need a tissue? This is the time of year I hear the most complaints from my friends about their seasonal allergies. Believe me, I understand more than you know just how miserable you feel. And I want to help. You see, I have terrible, life-altering, year-round and sometimes dangerous allergies. (I’ve…

I’m pissed!

By now most locals have heard about the massive health scare stemming from the procedures at the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada. The clinic was shut down last week, and now five more related clinics have closed, because of blatant disregard for medical procedures that protect people from blood-born illness. In particular, the clinic was…