Dear readers, I will be back on a regular blogging schedule the first week of September. I was out of town with my family for several days this past week, making just one trip to the...
End of Summer Breather
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Getting the Mammogram Call-Back
"Dear Ms. Brettschneider: Your mammogram performed on February 10, 2009 is considered incomplete. In order to complete the evaluation, we need additional imaging studies." I read those...
Feng Shui Fix Day
"Chi (pronounced chee) is the vital energy that comes from nature. It is the constantly moving and changing force around you, making you feel either good or bad in a certain location." ...
Drowning in a Sea of Testosterone
My sons are as different as night and day in so many ways, but the fact is that they share a testosterone-driven bond with my husband that I will never be in on. Every so often I try to...
Why It’s OK to Switch Off Some of Your Thinking
"If you're able to use your mind instead of being used by your mind, that's a beautiful thing. To use your mind constructively." -- Eckhart Tolle My 16-year-old son asked me once, "Why...
Making Peace with the Weeds
"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson This year I have approached my garden from an Emersonian viewpoint, embracing the virtues of...
Pay No Attention to that Man Behind the Curtain!
"Most people are still completely identified with the incessant stream of mind, of compulsive thinking, most of it repetitive and pointless." -- Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Discovering...
Why We Mind-Meld With Our Dogs
"We are ultimately not separate, not from one another nor from any living thing -- the flower, the tree, the cat, the dog. You can sense yourself in them, the essence of who you are." --...
Recharged After I Unplugged
"The digital consciousness can't tolerate three minutes of pure focus." -- William Powers, Hamlet's Blackberry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age It took...
Time to Shake Things Up
One month ago today, I posted my first blog. The site wasn't actually public until a couple of days later, but I'm using today as the blog's birthday since my first message was posted on...
Mystic Bunny
"Just watching an animal closely can take you out of your mind and bring you into the present moment, which is where the animal lives all the time--surrendered to life." -- Eckhart Tolle,...
No Turning Back
"The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it." -- Steven Pressfield, The War of Art I am spent today. After submitting my book proposal...