Rescue Your Big Mind Welcome back to planet Every Day Life! I hope everyone’s holidays were sane and nourishing in some form or another. So, everyone seems to have resolutions for the New Year and it’s this week that we are expected to actually act on those pledges. My promise to myself is always the same: To live more in the present and to somehow find the key to calming that incessant debilitating chatter in my head – you know, that radio station in your brain that tells you constantly how you need to do this or that, or how misunderstood you are, or how your house is the dirtiest…

The Mississippi: Ancient Territory of the Sacrificial Virgin? A compelling book tells the story of human sacrifice in North America. It seems the natives were not always the peaceful teepee dwellers we’d like to think they were… Sacrificial virgins of the Mississippi Archaeologists are slowly unearthing the ghastly secrets of Cahokia, an ancient city under the American heartland By Andrew O’Hehir Ever since the first Europeans came to North America, only to discover the puzzling fact that other people were already living here, the question of how to understand the Native American past has been both difficult and politically charged. For many years, American Indian life was viewed through a…