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Candace Talmadge

A native of Los Angeles, Candace L. Talmadge moved to England at age 14, where she spent her high school years in an all-girls grammar school. She learned Shakespeare and other English literature from those who know it best. She also twice cruised the Mediterranean, visiting ancient historic sites in Algeria, Greece, Italy, Libya, Portugal, Spain, and Tunisia.

 

Candace returned to the U.S. to attend Bryn Mawr College, graduating in three years with an honors bachelor's degree in history. She became a professional writer in 1976, joining The Suffolk County News as associate editor. She was a staff or freelance writer for numerous media that included The New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, Forbes, Reuters America, Business Week, the Dallas Times Herald, and Adweek. She has written thousands of business news articles, county government stories, and features. Now she writes political columns for The North Star National.

 

More than two decades ago, Candace encountered an alternative healing method called Sunan therapy that enabled her to resolve many of her emotional and spiritual wounds. This therapy also helped her become familiar with the intimate link between spirituality, energy, and healing. It introduced her to some of her past lives and those of family and friends.

 

In 1999, she co-authored Hope is in the Garden--Healing Resolution Through Unconditional Love, nonfiction about emotional and spiritual healing based on the Sunan method of working in the energy of human consciousness. Candace provides an expanded definition of energy that demonstrates the connection between matter, spirit, heart, and mind. She also argues that healing the individual and healing the world are interrelated in ways that perhaps many people don't perceive or expect.

 

The link between individual/personal and collective/global healing is one of the themes underlying the author's fiction, Green Stone of Healing® series. The multigenerational novels, written under the byline C.L. Talmadge, are based on two of Candace's past lives and the past lives of loved ones and acquaintances.

 

In 2005, she initially published the first editions of the series' first book, The Vision, through a now defunct small press. A new edition of The Vision, plus Fallout, the second book, The Scorpions Strike, the third book, and now Outcast, the fourth book, are available in paperback and as ebooks through HealingStone Books.

 

More about her unique genre fiction is available at the Green Stone of Healing® series website www.greenstoneofhealing.com.

 

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Candace's Previous Columns

The Ticking Cost Time Bomb in Health Insurance Reform - August 21, 2009

Republican Ticket in 2012: Star-Powered Dominionism? - August 14, 2009

It’s Not ‘Reform’ If It Merely Locks In Health Insurance Industry Profits - August 7, 2009

Complementary and Alternative Medicine: A Radical Rx for Real Health Care Competition - July 31, 2009

Amazon and the Fine Print in Digital Reading’s Future - July 24, 2009

Limiting Carbon Dioxide: It’s Merely Critical to All Life on Earth, So What Could Go Wrong? - July 17, 2009

Author: Sarah Palin Embodies Theocratic Movement - July 10, 2009

Scientists Tell Congress: Earth Cooling Without Carbon Dioxide Caps - July 3, 2009

Will Democrats Let Dream of ‘Bipartisanship’ Kill Real Health Care Reform? - June 26, 2009

Parable of the Stew (and the Congressman) - June 19, 2009

Mandating Health Insurance Purchase is Not Reform - June 12, 2009

Amazon’s Kindle: A Clever Monopoly Device - June 5, 2009

Health Insurance and Bankruptcies: Partners in Fiscal Crime - June 4, 2009

Unlike Dr. George Tiller, the Culture Wars Are Far From Dead - June 2, 2009

In the Digital Age, Story-Telling Comes Full Circle - May 29, 2009

Public Satisfaction: Medicare Beats Private Health Insurance . . . By a Lot - May 22, 2009

Income Alone Doesn’t Make Health Insurance Affordable - May 15, 2009

One Woman Can Make a Difference - May 8, 2009

Time for a Real Spiritual Revolution - May 6, 2009

Rx for Health Care Reform: A Public Health Care Plan Choice - May 1, 2009

Americans Support Public Health Insurance - April 24, 2009

Social Media’s Subversion of the Powers That Be - April 20, 2009

Health Insurance Industry’s Smoke and Mirrors ‘Reform’ Proposal - April 17, 2009

Religious or Secular, We’re Looking for the Apocalypse - April 14, 2009

Global Warming as Religion: Just Say No to Extreme Industrial Makeovers - April 10, 2009

Earth Day 2009: A Climate Change Reality Check - April 3, 2009

The Biggest Threat to Freedom: Ideologues In Extremis - March 27, 2009

AIG Bonuses: Feigned Outrage Fools No One - March 20, 2009

Don’t Look to Massachusetts to Model Heath Care Reform - March 13, 2009

Crisis Sparks Action: EmailHope.com - March 9, 2009

Single-Payer Health Care: America is Ready - March 6, 2009

Anti-Smoking Zealots’ Agenda Not About the Science - February 27, 2009

Real Heroes? Those Who Adopt Older Children, Risks and All - February 20, 2009

Make Adopting Older Kids Less of an Ordeal - February 13, 2009

Keep Faith, and the Faithful, in Public Schools - February 6, 2009

 

At Dallas Academy, ‘Losers’ Help the Rest of Us Be Winners - January 30, 2009

Economic Stimulus Debate Ignores Stagnant Wages - January 23, 2009

Real Science: Man-Made CO2 Can’t Cause Global Warming; It Doesn’t Have the Mojo - January 16, 2009

Rick Warren Prays to His God; I’ll Pray to Mine - January 9, 2009

 

Bernard Madoff: The Best Justice Money Can Buy - January 2, 2009

 

Pardon Us, Mr. President! - December 26, 2008

 

Why Mess With ‘Hybrid’ Health Reform When Single-Payer Is the Way to Go? - December 19, 2008

 

Appreciation, Much Better Than Gratitude, Is the Holiday Rx This Year - December 12, 2008

 

Safe-Haven Fallout Motivates Nebraska Legislator - December 5, 2008

Auto Bailout for Workers, Not for Short-Sighted CEOs - November 24, 2008

Skip the Intermediate Steps and Just Do It: Single-Payer Health Care - November 17, 2008

Be Vigilant: The Religious Right Will Be Back - November 10, 2008

We Can Imagine It Now; We’ve Made It Happen - November 5, 2008

My 10<sup>th Presidential Election, and Thanks to Obama, My First Vote With a Happy Heart - November 3, 2008

Green Economy Rises Out of Financial Sector Ashes - October 31, 2008

Halloween Nightmare: Another Bin Laden Election Surprise - October 27, 2008

It Ain’t Broke, So Don’t Fix Nebraska’s Safe-Haven Law - October 20, 2008

Sarah Palin’s Religious Ties Now Up for Discussion - October 13, 2008

George W. Bush: Torturing Democracy in So Many Ways - October 6, 2008

Atheists in Uniform Fight Back Against Religious Radicals in the Ranks - September 29, 2008

Alliance Defense Fund Ploy: People of Faith Denounce Pulpit Partisanship - September 23, 2008

Longtime Republicans Back Obama with Book, Advocacy - September 22, 2008

Real Reform: California Tiptoes Again Toward Single-Payer Health Care - September 15, 2008

Palin Misfires with Cheap Shot at Community Organizers - September 8, 2008

Compassionate Cornhuskers: Keeping Children Safe from Parental Malpractice - September 1, 2008

Uncounted: Documentary Explores U.S. Election Fraud - August 25, 2008

Mukasey’s Minions: Republican Means Never Having to Be Accountable - August 18, 2008

David Takes Aim at FTC Goliath - August 15, 2008

Congressional Resolutions Make Iran Situation Worse - August 11, 2008

Energy Breakthrough: Stick This Where the Sun Don’t Shine! - August 4, 2008

Anti-Abortion Nonsense Disguises Movement’s Retro Goals - July 28, 2008

Robert Wexler’s Fire-Breathing Liberal: Unabashed Liberal Congressman Tells All - July 21, 2008

Modern Sugar Substitutes: How Sweet It Isn’t - July 14, 2008

Anti-Gay Cruelty Surely Isn’t God’s Plan - July 8, 2008

To Solve Health Care, Eliminate Health Insurance - July 7, 2008

The Presidency: Entirely About Character, Part 2 - June 30, 2008

Mormons vs. Gay Marriage: So It’s One Man and One Woman Now, Is It? - June 27, 2008

The Presidency: Entirely About Character, Part 1 - June 23, 2008

Choking on the Consequences of Petroleum Denial - June 16, 2008

Please, Sen. Obama: Don’t Listen to GOP ‘Advice’ - June 9, 2008

You Bet U.S. Workers Are Bitter - June 2, 2008

Questions for the Next President - May 26, 2008

Help! The Mobile Technology Borg Has Assimilated Me! - May 19, 2008

Meaning in Life Apart From Work - May 12, 2008

Meaningful Work Grows in Texas - May 8, 2008

Data Theft Prevention Goes Green - May 5, 2008

Goodbye to All That, Part I: You Don’t Need Corporate America - April 28, 2008

Balance of Power Restored: Children Removed From Polygamist Compound - April 21, 2008

$4-A-Gallon Diesel Puts Rig Owners in Protest Mode - April 14, 2008

William E. Odom: Iraq Testimony from a Different General - April 10, 2008

 

Amazon.com Writes the Book on Corporate Greed - April 7, 2008

Democracy, Texas-Style - March 31, 2008

Fear-Mongering: How Bush Built Up Bin Laden - March 24, 2008

Two Angry Moms Offer Food for Thought - March 17, 2008

 

More Private Health Insurance: The Worst Possible Solution - March 11, 2008

 

Horror Tales from the Health Insurance Trenches - March 10, 2008

 

Health Insurance Mandates: Great for Insurers, And That’s About It - March 3, 2008

 

Want to Goose the Economy? Get U.S. Out of Iraq - February 25, 2008

 

Lesson of NIU and Other Shooters: Post-9/11 America Not So Different - February 19, 2008

 

Why I Will Vote for Barack Obama - February 18, 2008

 

After Super Tuesday, the Texas Primary Might Really Matter This Year - February 11, 2008

 

Is Barack Obama Willing to Lance the Boil of Racism? - February 4, 2008

 

Bush’s State of the Union - January 28, 2008

 

John Edwards and John McCain: Presidential Artisans - January 25, 2008

 

Hillary Clinton as Alfalfa? Take Your Vitamins Before You Vote - January 21, 2008

 

They Act Like Children, So Bush and Cheney Need the Boundaries of Impeachment - January 14, 2008

 

With Robot Soldiers, Peace Will Become Impossible - January 7, 2008

 

Expat’s Book Reveals Much That’s Wrong in U.S. - December 31, 2007

 

True Belief: A Boon and a Bane - December 24, 2007

 

Low-Tech Advances Still Deserve Our Investment - December 17, 2007

 

The Best Christmas Gift: Unconditional Love - December 10, 2007

 

First, the U.S. Rounded Up the Arabs . . .  - December 3, 2007

 

UFO Coverup: If We Know, We’ll Realize Government Can’t Protect Us - November 26, 2007

 

Happy Thanksgiving: Enjoy Your Blessings While You Still Have Them - November 19, 2007

 

World Coming Apart, But By God We’ll Get Rid of Those Baggy Pants! - November 12, 2007

 

Government's Role: Maintain the Balance of Societal Power - November 7, 2007

 

Tomorrow’s Election Day, So Vote or Shut Up! - November 5, 2007

 

What's So Implausible About the Supernatural? - October 29, 2007

 

Why Does Ann Coulter Think Anyone Would Want to be Perfected? - October 22, 2007

 

Had Enough of Bad News? Send In an AngelScribe - October 15, 2007

 

The Days of a Judging God Are Long Gone - October 8, 2007

 

Mourning the Hero of 'Meerkat Manor' - October 2,2007

 

AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo! and the Practice of Corporate Censorship - October 1, 2007

 

Sure, Guarantee Health Care, But Mandatory Insurance Doesn’t - September 24, 2007

 

MarryOurDaughters.com Shows We’ve Lost Our Handle on Reality - September 18, 2007

 

Spider Sense is Tingling in Texas - September 17, 2007

 

How an Arrogant America Robbed Iraq of Its Self-Respect - September 10, 2007

 

RFID Tags: The End of American Common Sense? - September 3, 2007

 

Self-Determination is the Way to Resist Karl Rove-Style Power Grabbers - August 27, 2007

 

Intel: Racism and Corporate Greed Inside - August 20, 2007

 

Man-Made Global Warming? Scientists are Starting to Doubt It - August 13, 2007

 

The Unconditional Love of Oscar and Scamp - August 6, 2007

 

Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Lessons Lead to Impeachment - July 30, 2007

 

 Mad as Hell: Is America Becoming Unhinged? - July 23, 2007

 

Unlike the War Debate, Listen to Global Warming Skeptics - July 16, 2007

 

Only the Little People, Unlike Scooter Libby, Are Held Accountable - July 9, 2007

Learning by Example: If Only We Could - July 2, 2007

Princess Diana: Death of the Fairytale - June 25, 2007

Second Life is Virtual; Control is an Illusion - June 18, 2007

Torture and Illegal Spying: Our Illusionary 'Ring of Power' - June 11, 2007

Good-Bye to All That: Cindy Sheehan Steps Back - June 7, 2007

Why Would Outer Space Want Our Inner Junk? - May 28, 2007

Bush & Co. Should Share Paris Hilton's Fate - May 21, 2007

An Open Letter to the Honeybees: Come Back! - May 14, 2007

No Thatcher: Why Hillary Clinton Is Unlikely To Win the Presidency - May 7, 2007

Yingling's Rebuke: Poor Management, Lies Doomed Iraq War Effort - April 30, 2007

Partial-Birth Abortion Ruling Makes Nightmare Reality - April 23, 2007

The Imus Humor Style: Attack the Defenseless - April 16, 2007

Photosynthesis: The Energy Answer? - April 9, 2007

Corporate Serfdom: Coming Soon to a Globe Near You - April 2, 2007

Global Warming Frenzy Resembles Iraq War Runup - March 26, 2007

Child Abuse? Try Abuse of Power - March 19, 2007

Spiritual Lessons from Iraq and Beyond - March 12, 2007

Complete the Sexual Revolution - March 5, 2007

Maybe You Know More than the 'Experts' - February 26, 2007

Women and Wal-Mart - February 19, 2007

Starving for Approval - February 12, 2007

So Much for Free Speech - February 5, 2007

Mexico: Missing in Action in Immigrant Debate - January 29, 2007

Perfectionist Nation, Perfectionist President: Part I - January 22, 2007

Respect for a Difficult Parental Decision - January 15, 2007

Deliberate Thieves and Accidental Comedians - January 8, 2007

Go Easy on the Soul: It's Forever - January 1, 2007

Requiem for the Greeting Card - December 25, 2006

Cacophony Aside: The Most Profound Idea Ever - December 18, 2006

Surgery Leaves No Room for American-Style Impatience - December 13, 2006

Love for All, No Strings Attached - December 6, 2006

Elmo Insanity Returns - November 29, 2006

Few Blessings, Abundant Gratitude - November 22, 2006

Atrocities In God's Name? Don't Blame God - November 15, 2006

South Dakota's Small Victory on Abortion - November 8, 2006

No Excuse Not To Vote - November 1, 2006

Restored Hearing Means Listening for the Good News - October 25, 2006

Iraq: Classic Co-Dependence - October 18, 2006

Suicide Doesn't Stop the Pain - October 11, 2006

The Food Gestapo Strikes Again - October 4, 2006

Earth Getting Hotter?  Look to the Sun - September 27, 2006

The Intangible Frontier - September 20, 2006

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