A Heart-and-Soul Approach to Health

You could say the Church of the Nazarene is interested in a change of heart.

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, the Santa Monica church is offering free “Love Transplants” for interested parishioners.

But rest easy. Pastor Clarence Crites, who is making the offer via the church’s outdoor marquee, assured us the operation is spiritual, not surgical, and involves love, not vital organs.

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SACRAMENTO-BOUND? In her role as the intelligent Zelda Gilroy in the 1959-1963 CBS situation comedy, “The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis,” Sheila James Kuehl imagined herself guiding Dobie (Dwayne Hickman) into Congress or the White House.

In those days, the idea of a woman running for office was generally unthinkable.

But this week, Kuehl will become a real-life candidate. On Wednesday, her 53rd birthday, she plans to file her declaration of intention to seek the Democratic nomination for the 41st Assembly District seat. There will be no incumbent in the race for the Westside and San Fernando Valley seat. The incumbent, Terry B. Friedman (D-Brentwood), announced last month he would pass up a bid for a fifth and final term in the Assembly and would instead run for a Superior Court judgeship.

Kuehl said her candidacy is not an example of an actress trying to cash in on her fame, but a “logical continuation” of her legal work.

A Harvard law school graduate, she currently serves as counsel to the California Women’s Law Center, a policy development and technical assistance center, working on issues affecting women and children.

Kuehl does not consider her situation analogous to actors who leap directly into politics. She said she believes her sitcom past, “could cut both ways.”

“Everywhere I go people know and like the character (of Zelda), so they’re predisposed to like me,” Kuehl said. “On the downside it’s possible this could trivialize my candidacy, but I’m not worried.”

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SLEEP EASY: Erik Beckjord wants you to take the next earthquake lying down.

The Malibu resident has devised a roll bar for the bed. He calls it Beckjord’s Cube.

“It acts like a four-poster bed to keep the roof from falling in,” he said.

The do-it-yourself bed frame is made of sturdy metal piping, which acts like the protective roll bar on a Jeep.

And in the spirit of post-quake generosity, he is giving away plans for the gadget.

We can’t wait for the all-terrain shock absorbers.