Have you been feeling it? That late November swirl? Time winding up, like a jack-in-the-box, set to pop soon? Holiday songs slipping into...

I was reading about near death experiences and about how, in the context of healing, if they’re simulated, they can be catalysts for...

Marianne Williamson wrote once: “Your only real problem is that you’ve forgotten who you are.” And the teacher Abraham wrote: “You are...

I thought about skipping my newsletter this week because it’s Halloween tonight and the air is filled with anticipation and I thought:...

Last week I was away on a self imposed writer’s retreat in the city. I wasn’t going to announce it at first. I wanted to keep a low...

One winter, when I was a student in New York City, I took a train home to Boston in a snowstorm. At one point, in Connecticut, conditions...

Isn’t it interesting to consider that the only difference between “dread” and “dream” is a single letter? What other possible realities...

Sometimes, racing toward the intersection, as the lights are changing from green to yellow, and I’m faced with the split second choice of...

At the end of July, in 2001, I walked into my boss’s office on a Friday afternoon and let him know I was quitting. This news landed more...

I went down a rabbit hole last week researching the idea of randomness. It all started with a book on quantum physics I’ve been reading....

I had a different kind of Covid-blues the other day as I raced to drop one kid off, pick the other up, and call the dentist over...

Since my Lyme diagnosis, I’ve been relating to myself differently. I feel extra protective of my health and sensitively attuned to the...

One of my favorite teachings from the Buddha is: It is better to travel well than to arrive. The Ego wants to hurry up and get “there.”...

Last Sunday, months of ambiguous symptoms yielded to acute pain along the lower, right side of my belly and landed me in the ER. The pain...

When my dog Shadow was a baby she learned a trick. I usually keep a glass of water on my bedside table at night. She would crawl onto my...

In my 20’s, I signed myself up for a week long silent meditation retreat at a Buddhist center deep in the woods of a tiny New England...

I saw a bumper sticker the other day that said: I’m not bossy, I’m just always right. It made me laugh out loud and it reminded me of...

I shared a very personal story on Instagram last week about finding partnership in my life post divorce. I spent a long time sitting with...

When people find out you’re getting divorced they say things like: “I’m so sorry.” I never knew how to respond to that so I’d default to...

A few weeks before the pandemic settled in to our collective realities, I walked, maskless and ignorantly blissful, into a department...