Trying to focus on cloud edges. That's how I spent the sunrise this morning, trying to capture the clearest image of the new dawn. It's a gift for Mari. I introduced you to my new friend a...
When All I Can Give Is a Sunrise
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Top Ten Favorites From My #JulyJoy Photo Challenge
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...
Celebrating Spirit — Meet My Friend Mari
"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...
Why I Took on the Whole30 Food Challenge
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...
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...