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...
Why I Took on the Whole30 Food Challenge
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Phoenix Garden Report and July Photo Challenge
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...
My Huffington Post Father’s Day Piece
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...
Carolyn Bagdoyan’s Off-the-Mat Yoga Lessons for Summer Presence
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...
Highlights of #MayMoments: My Experimental Photo Challenge
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...
Mindful Mother’s Day Wishes
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,...
Tara Brach’s Jewels of Wisdom at the 2016 Mindful Life Conference
"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...
How to Share Your Healthy Energy: Piling the Miles for #teamgreg
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...
The Garden That First Seduced Me
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...
Easter Morning Musings and More March Photo Meditations
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...
Interview with Miz Meliz
Those of you who are connected with me on Facebook may have seen that I had my first live stream video podcast interview yesterday with Miz Meliz (Melissa Reyes), who's based just outside...
Photo Meditations From a Wild, Mild March
After a wild week of Blooming into Mindfulness book release events, today I just need to exhale. Fitting in #MarthasMarchPhotoChallenge between marketing work reminded me of why I took on...