Things are heating up with Blooming into Mindfulness: How the Universe Used a Garden, Cancer, and Carpools to Teach Me That Calm Is the New Happy. Have you checked it out yet? I'm having a...
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YES! I’ll Take the #MarthasMarchPhotoChallenge!
Who is ready for spring? I am! Spring to me means new energy, new growth, and fresh starts. Spring = Inspiration! (Former economist Martha needs to throw in equations from time to time.)...
Eight Lessons From My First Three Weeks as a Self-Published Author
"How do you feel now that the book is finished? You must be so relieved! Now you can relax!" Since I announced the release of Blooming into Mindfulness: How the Universe Used a Garden,...
Kindle Version of Blooming into Mindfulness Up On Amazon!
What a whirlwind the past two weeks have been! To be honest, I'm pretty tuckered out from my mile-high to-do list after launching the print version of Blooming into Mindfulness on Amazon....
Blooming into Mindfulness Launch Events
I'm writing this morning from Lake Placid, New York, where we're fitting in a couple of days of skiing between college visits with my 17-year-old son. Managing a book launch on the...
Blooming into Mindfulness is Up on Amazon!!!!
Drum roll please..... YES.....IT'S HERE!!!!!! Blooming into Mindfulness: How the Universe Used a Garden, Cancer, and Carpools to Teach Me That Calm Is the New Happy is live on...
How Meditation Nurtures Creativity
Listen to this awesome meditation story. "How awesome can a meditation story possibly be?" you might ask. Well, listen up. So last Friday, as we were trying to finalize the design and...
Back to Basics: How a Simple Mindfulness Practice Supplemented Meditation
This morning my coffee mug is my mindfulness mentor. A polish pottery piece, the mug is round—seemingly custom-made for my cupped hands—and decorated in a blue floral pattern. The lip...
Diving into 2016 With A Dash of Fear And A Big Dose of Purpose
If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you. ~ Natalie Goldberg The sun just rose on 2016. Never have I felt such intense anticipation at the...
How The Compassion Collective Lifted My Spirits on Christmas Eve
Not exactly sure why, but I've been sort of sad, or at least down the past few days. Maybe it's because I haven't exercised enough the past week and it's affecting my brain chemistry....
Taking Words Out of the Way to Protest the NRA
I hadn't set out to write a rhyming title. It just happened. And when I asked if anybody would come with me to my first gun control rally in front of NRA headquarters on December 14th, the...
Embracing the Light More Than Ever This Holiday Season
Reposting this piece, which I wrote just a few days after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. It's been three long years since that terrible day, with...