Blog Posts

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...

The current climate (also known, on days when I’m less stable, as “the shitstorm we’re living through”) has me really leaning into a...

As I was falling in love with the process  of writing, I dropped down a bit of a rabbit hole pondering the concepts of story and...

Having lived almost exclusively in my head from a very early age, until recently I was wholly unaware that everybody didn’t live the same...

I’m writing this on Monday, hunkering down at my desk, the cold wind and steady rain outside adding to my sense of sadness and...

These days I’m finding my reveries riddled with metaphors. Some of them are strong (decluttering one’s physical space as a metaphor for...

I’m surely dating myself, but this question, asked with varying degrees of frequency and vitriol, was not uncommon when I was a child. It...

I’m happy to report that I believe I’ve finally hit upon the formula for creating the peace and joy that was previously lacking from my...