Blog Posts

Some time ago, I shared my recipe for an exceptional day . Now, just back from a week-long trip to New England, it seems I’ve hit on the...

Recently, I came across a reference to LeavingMaga.org and decided to check it out. Their mission statement is as follows: Empower...

“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.” Toni Morrison The past ten years have whizzed by, jam-packed with more...

There was a time when I would have said that I was definitely not a procrastinator: if something needed to be done, I got right on it....

I’ve never been (and suspect I never will be) commended for having the patience of a saint. In fact, I generally uphold both the Aries...

It seems that remaining steadfast in my resolve to find joy and purpose as democracy continues to dissolve is becoming an almost...

A big part of my daily life of late has been making an effort to stave off the negative effects of aging. Ironically, this is one...

Seems it’s that time again, where the lists are clamoring to be shared. This time around, the nautical definition of the term listing (...

Recently I requested your ideas for overcoming (or at least surviving) the previously unimaginable level of inhumanity, corruption, and...

Sleepwalking through most of my life in survival mode, I felt absolutely no connection to or curiosity about religious or spiritual...

It’s probably a combination of my, ahem, attentional deficits and my advanced age, but I’ve never adapted to using the calendar on my...

You’d think someone who reads as incessantly as I always have would have figured out that the mind-body connection is a real thing much...

I’ve mentioned “filling the well” in earlier posts. It’s a concept I first picked up from reading Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way many...

When I bought my ideal Caribbean cottage seven years ago, it was an extremely busy time. In addition to moving, I was still dealing with...

When I wrote about decluttering your space , I suggested it was a potential first step in decluttering the rest of your life. If you’re...

Today’s my birthday (again) and I’m celebrating by slacking off a bit (in fact, that may be the theme for the entire month of April,...

Last month I wrote about family estrangement , something I’ve become intimately familiar with and am still working hard to accept. While...

My attempts to calm myself and impose a little order in the face of our country becoming an out-of-control dumpster fire continue. In an...

On one of my walks through downtown last week, I noticed a higher than usual number of dogs in strollers (something I’d never seen until...

In the early days of my post-apocalyptic life, I focused on two things to the exclusion of all others: surviving the psychic, financial...