When I was growing up, my recollection is that Christmas decorations didn’t go up until Thanksgiving. That may or may not be true, but I know that over the course of the last three or four...
Greetings, friends! Since giving you a sneak peek of my Damselwings Photography online shop a while back, I've been working hard behind the scenes to make it ready for prime time. Though...
What emotional response do you have when you hear the first Christmas song on the radio or find the first red and green or snowflake-patterned holiday decorations at the store? Does a...
Playfulness is good for you. So many sources have delivered this message to me over the years that I’ve lost count. Julia Cameron in The Artist’s Way, mindfulness teachers ranging from the...
This week's post is a reprint of a piece I wrote last October, updated to reflect the means by which I plan to support METAvivor.org in 2017. Breast cancer hasn't gone away, nor has the...
How do you like my newest photography award winner, Hibiscus Abstract Sepia? When I was notified a couple of weeks ago that my entry had won the “Abstracts of Nature” category in the 2017...
Have you ever collaborated with an accountability buddy? I wrote about this in a 2015 series on rebooting healthy, soul-feeding habits in my life (see How an Accountability Buddy Can Turn...
"What are you supposed to do if you have an itch during meditation? Should you try to ignore it or is it OK to scratch it?" When this question came up during the post-meditation discussion...
I’ve been thinking a lot about joy lately, and particularly about joy as an indicator of living in alignment with your purpose. We dove deep into this topic earlier this week in my...
It never fails to astonish me how doing nothing for a few minutes each day (meditating) helps me do everything else better. In a 2015 interview with On Being's Krista Tippet, social...
This past Saturday, I stood in Wheaton, Maryland’s Brookside Gardens waiting to take butterfly photographs. Joy flooded through me to such an extent that I was almost moved to...
I'm writing this morning from Seattle's Whidbey Island. In just a few hours, my niece Elizabeth (Lizzie) will marry the love of her life. Although I have been planted on the East Coast for...