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"Why do you keep looking at it?" my 10-year-old said with a chuckle as I stopped to look again at the OM magnet I'd secured to the left side of our car's trunk. I've placed it about 16 inches northwest of our car's back license plate. Never had a bumper sticker before.

"Well, I like it. It makes me happy."

We walked on. I looked back. He laughed.

I should have described my feelings better to him: the OM symbol "symbolizes the formless aspect of God," says this site. Click here and scroll down to hear it chanted. Click here to hear what Krishna Das does with it.

We're in rural Western Massachusetts for three weeks now. Brooklyn is behind us. The kids will attend an art/ecology day camp while I blog away with windows open to the woods around my in-laws' house. Mr. Chattering will work hard at Beliefnet back in the city, but retreat here most every weekend.

The New York Times asked Julie Kleinman, director of programming for the Yoga Works chain of studios, to test a wide assortment of yoga mats. Here are the mats she liked best for their stickiness, stability, and environmental consciousness.

As I recently examined a pearl necklace my mother left me, holding it up to my neck in the mirror, I thought: "Gosh, it's too bad I will never, ever, wear this."

But take note of what spiritual jewelery designers are doing with pearls today. There are other ways to mix and string pearls in longer strands to kick them out of their prim, conservative appearance. You don't have to be strangled by them close to the neck.

So next time I'm feeling flush and frisky, I'll just have my mother's pearls restrung!

Pearls are said here to "amplify feminine lunar energy."

It's a nice old wives' tale that the wearing of pearls helps infertile women get pregnant.