Nowhere am I more conscious of this month’s theme — It’s All In The Timing, Meditation HERE — than on Friday afternoons at precisely 2:29 pm. No matter what I’m doing — often in the middle of a creative client session, more than once during a nap — I’ve set my iPhone alarm to ring. ...

Although I had (wisely) budgeted time for delays, this was one I hadn’t anticipated. When it comes to publishing mechanics, in my experience, Amazon tends to underpromise and overdeliver. They told me it would be up to 48 hours for tech approval to order proofs of my new book. In 4 hours, I had an...

It was a different era, decades before everyone had a smartphone with a camera. Right after college, I wrote and directed my first short film. It was predictably “arty,” shot in black and white, with a classical-music soundtrack. Filmed over winter break, and with absolutely no budget, I cast...

Appropriately, it happened during one of those rare moments that were truly outside of time. The messages arrived when my phone was not just on “Do Not Disturb,” or even in airplane mode, but actually turned off. I didn’t want to risk any interruptions, since I was sitting in the second row with my m...

This meditation is 5 minutes long with 8 minutes more of music by my talent friend Andrew Shapiro. CLICK HEREDownload