Greetings friends! I stepped off the grid to be present with my loved ones over the holidays. We took the week before Christmas to visit family and ski at Whistler, British Columbia,...
I made the mistake this morning of looking at Facebook before I meditated. As with every “mistake,” a lesson awaited. I had decided to take a day off from my usual 20-minutes of meditating...
My favorite place during meditation is the space between breaths. When you sit in silence, even the breath can sound loud. The space between breaths is utterly still, but somehow deeply...
My college kids came home last night. After a bustle of activity this morning, everyone dispersed in various directions – job interview, haircut, and a run (the latter undertaken by the...
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...