A recent Op-Ed from Mary Pipher, author of Reviving Ophelia and Women Rowing North, wrote, “While death is inevitable, our attitude about it is not.” May I a...

Can you imagine being free from guilt, shame, fear and self-criticism? Free from judgement? Of both yourself and others? The Four Agreements is considered a ...

My mom and I used to play a game when we were out shopping. Before running into the store, sometimes we’d just watch the people coming and going and…. get re...

Here’s a scenario I recently witnessed: A woman was fumbling with a coffee mug trying to twist the top off. Her friend takes it out of her hand and lifts the...

In The Four Agreements, bestselling author don Miguel Ruiz shows us how self-limiting beliefs rob us of joy and create endless suffering. Based on ancient To...

This was a memorable weekend. I waded out of my comfort zone and ventured beyond my limitations. Let’s start with comfort zone, as defined by Lifehacker. It’...

This was a very difficult week. I midwifed one of my very best friends out of this earthly plane and ushered her home to her resting place. Lynn was brave, c...

Ralph Waldo Emerson’s quote on habit spoke to me loudly. He wrote, ”Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and yo...

The Guest House This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpec...

Maria Shriver offers a digital weekly newsletter called, The Sunday Paper. This week she wrote about her love for Thanksgiving, saying she looks forward to i...

Today I took a friend for a car ride. She is ‘terminal’ and now preparing for her life adventure to come to an end. Every time we speak, she’s embracing and ...

I had an epiphany during a water aerobics class. While working with the weights, the teacher demonstrated poolside to hold them together then pull them apart...

As the clocks change and the time changes, notice if your circadian rhythm changes too. I woke up earlier than usual this morning.... how about you? Although...

For ten days, the weather was dismal. Thankfully, the sun came out again yesterday. Before that, day after day it was gray and cold and damp and windy and I ...

Yesterday we cleaned out all the closets. Everything got moved, tossed or repurposed. This morning, when I went for the doggy waste bags, they weren’t in the...

I had an interesting experience last week while on a writing assignment in Chelsea, Michigan, for a new Animal Planet series scheduled for release in early 2...

The fabric of the American Dream is splitting —the tear is exposing deep wounds.This week we've been thrust, head-on, to face the facts and confront the trut...

The other day I saw a man sealing his driveway with fresh black tar. I complimented him on the fine job he was doing. ”Oh no,” he said, “it’s not so good. I’...

Do you remember the Bob Dylan lyric from the song Back Pages? “I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.” In our younger years we often accepted w...