I have been channeling Goldilocks since starting this blog a little over two months ago. I have tried out different approaches to frequency, experimented with how I try to engage readers,...
Finding My Rhythm and Botoxing the Blog
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How Do You Tell People You Might Have Cancer?
Below is another excerpt from my book in progress, Feng Shui Animal House: Raking Sand in the Midst of the Chaos. It follows having the radiologist tell me that she was concerned about my...
Feng Shui Faucets and the Power of the Drip
"[The professional] will not tolerate disorder. He eliminates chaos from his world in order to banish it from his mind. He wants the carpet vacuumed and the threshold swept so the Muse...
Overcoming Resistance and Getting Back to Work
"Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work." Steven Pressfield, The War of Art The lake is perfectly still this morning, its glassy surface reflecting trees and...
End of Summer Breather
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...
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." --...