Barb Walsh

Crazy Sexy Diet  by Kris Carr Have you ever heard anyone say "this book changed my life". Does it get no more from you than a sniffle or an eye roll? Well, get ready - this book changed my life, for real. But not in the way you are expecting. Or perhaps in exactly the way you are expecting. How am I to know what you are expecting, dear reader? For those of you unfamiliar with Kris Carr, here is a very brief synopsis: New Yorker, actress, 'Bud Girl', documentary filmmaker, wellness warrior, Cancer survivor. Her documentary Crazy Sexy Cancer will absolutely blow you away. You can find it at your local bookstore, library, groovy independent movie rental store, friend's really well-stock dvd collection, or on-line.  At 32, Kris was diagnosed with an incurable cancer of the liver and lungs. Crazy Sexy Cancer documents her experiences with different kinds of therapy and food on her journey to becoming a "healing junkie".  She also documen...

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage By Elizabeth Gilbert Book Review Elizabeth Gilbert, the author of  Eat Pray Love , lets us take a peak into her personal sphere once again with Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage (also sometimes called Committed: A Love Story). If you haven't read Eat Pray Love, what are you waiting for, girl? Get off the couch and run, do not walk, to your local library or bookstore or friend's overstocked home library and check this book out! And, no, the movie will not do - I love Julia Roberts as much as the next person and Javier (need we say more...) - but books are always better than movies, sweet reader - without exception. Eat Pray Love is the  story of a woman (coincidentally - the author) who, newly divorced, decides to give up everything to get back to her true self through travel to Italy, India and Bali.  I don't want to spoil the ending for you, but she encounters food, spiritual enlightenment and love on he...