As I write the last blog of my 30 day challenge, I’m aware of the feeling of deep satisfaction I have. I overcame my tendency of...

I love the moment when you realize that you’re dealing with a challenging situation differently than you would have in the past. You’re...

The idea of surrender is often thought of as a negative thing, especially in a culture where achievement and winning is so very...

My amazing niece Molly Rose has always been a unique and forward-thinking person. She started a recycling program in grade school, played...

In her gorgeous book, Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbert tells a story of a friend that had given up ice skating during adolescence, because...

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. - Martin Luther King Jr. The potential of this choice is...

When I was studying the anatomy of breathing, I was delighted to read this: the first breath we take as we enter this world is the...

A few years ago I was hiking, and came upon a huge desert tortoise, lying in the middle of my path. One of his back legs was twisted in a...

I have a wise and beautiful friend who spends a large part of each year at her home in India. She’s a meditator of more than 30 years,...

I was having a really bad day, and it seemed that every time I turned around, there was something else to feel frustrated about. I was...

The collective noun for a group of vultures in flight is a kettle. It came to be, that one fall evening, I had a kettle of nearly 100 of...

I don’t want to hold onto old stuff...it‘s heavy, distracting, and painful. My mind however, has an entirely different opinion. It wants...

A few years ago I watched how one small choice, in one small car, made with only partial attention, spiraled into a surprising and...

I knew there would probably be a day during my thirty day blog challenge where I would either be too busy, too tired, or too sad to blog....

My relationship with food has, for as long as I can remember, been complicated. Both comfort and escape have been provided, but something...

When my best friend got sick, developed sepsis, and slipped into a coma, my whole world unraveled. She was an integral part of my life,...

I felt in need of a great pilgrimage, so I sat still for three days. -Hafiz We have a universe inside of us, a innerverse really, that we...

This is what yoga is, a conversation with the only thing in your life that is truly yours...the wise body you live in. So we step on our...

A few years ago a fabulous woman came to my meditation class. When I asked everyone if they had any questions about meditation, she said...

I’ve been troubled lately by the realization that time is passing, and I’ve not yet started on the the hard work part of making my dreams...