Crossing the tracks

What does this malarkey I’m about to charge into thumbs-first mean?
This is the question I grapple with five minutes after making my first-ever appointment with a palm reader. For the five minutes subsequent to hanging up the phone, I debated what to wear. Seriously. I wondered whether disguising myself – as a super-Hippy, a postal employee, [...]

A Page on My Personal Journey Into the World of the Thumb

I don’t want to hit the cow. That just wouldn’t be polite. So instead, I hit the brakes — a tap, really — for a mere sneeze of time. But it’s enough. The cow whose nose I worried about bruising with my pickup’s headlight trots in front of my truck. So do a dozen of [...]

The world through itch-colored glasses

Two weekends ago, at the steepest part of the downward slide into poison oak rashiness, I attended a special hand analysis workshop in Orange County, not too far from Disneyland and Angel Stadium.
When I told the hand analysis class I was itching, they thought I meant ‘itching to learn,’ which was true, in a metaphoric, cliché-ish [...]

Thumb tips

Say you were inclined to read someone’s thumb. Let’s call that someone hot-Dan-the-beverage-rep-always-in-the-beer-aisle-at-Vons-when-you’re-there. ‘Dan’ for short. Even if you neglected to observe the rest of Dan’s hand, scanning his primary digit would render a good idea of Dan’s character, according to the three hand readers–Sandie Hancock, Rozie Roolz, and Kay Packard–to whom I’ve spoken.  “In [...]

Revealing the soul’s agenda

“Thumbs are about doing, accomplishment, and rearrangement,” says Kay Packard, an International Institute of Hand Analysis-certified hand analyst who operates her practice, Hand Factor, from the oak-studded foothills of the Sierra Nevada in Three Rivers, Calif.
As a hand analyst, Packard reads and decodes the fingertips “to reveal the soul’s agenda to the owner of the [...]

Castles in your hand

She hands me her card:
Circle of Light — A Universal Life Church
Sandie Hancock, HPs, ND
Not Madame Sandra. No exotic Gypsy-esque name. Just Sandie Hancock, with her red-haired ponytail perched atop her head as if sprouted there. She wears glasses and refers to herself as a ‘fat girl.’ She must be 60+ years old because she [...]