Happy August everyone! I had great fun with last month's #JulyJoyPhoto Challenge. With all the negative energy swirling around this summer, I have found even greater solace in connecting...
"Cancer is a life experience to call us to look deeper and beyond our physical selves." ~ Mari Ryan Sometimes the universe nudges us to move down a path even when we have no idea where...
I just completed a month-long food experiment with the Whole30 program. I wasn't trying to lose weight. The ten pounds I lost a year ago after giving up bread, pasta, and other...
It's a time of creative unfolding, both for myself and my garden. For those of you who have been following for a while, you know that my garden's growth path is tightly intertwined with my...
This article first appeared on Huffington Post on 6/17/2016. Happy Father's Day! What Mindfulness Has Taught Me About Father's Day My father died 39 years ago, just a few days after my...
As someone whose severe motion sickness precludes intense yoga practice, it was a revelation for me to learn that yoga is also about training our mindfulness skills off the mat. My dear...
May has been a crazy month, with book events, photography shows, mindfulness (and mindful) conferences, and family graduations filling the past several weeks. I knew I already had a lot on...
It's the night before Mother's Day and I'm pretty pooped after my photography show today at the Vienna Garden Faire. The event elicited gratitude both as a mother and as a daughter,...
"An intelligence inside us knows that blame prevents us from living free." ~ Tara Brach I spent the past two days at the 2016 Mindful Life Conference in Washington, D.C. After a...
I hadn't planned on running this Saturday morning. I had managed to exercise in some capacity Monday through Friday and felt justified in taking a break. But late Friday night, this post...
If you've read Blooming into Mindfulness, you know that my Virginia garden became my first mindfulness mentor when we bought our house twenty-two years ago, though I didn't have the...
Sitting at my kitchen table this Easter morning, sipping coffee and taking in the brazen forsythia and happy daffodils lighting up my back slope, I am struck once again by nature's lessons...