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This guided visualization meditation is about 6 minutes long, followed by 15 minutes more of music by my friend David Buchs. It can be streamed or downloaded. Click toDownload

Your 1st Free Gift is HERE. Most of the time, I can never decide which of these two contradictory quotes rings more true: “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.” (It’s usually attributed to him, but Benjamin Franklin never actually said it.) Or the Yiddish Proverb: “Man Plans, and God Laughs.”&n...

As is so often the case, Anne Lamott said it best: You own everythingthat happened to you.Tell your stories.If people wanted you to write warmly about them,they should’ve behaved better. And yet… I’ve guided a dozen memoir writers on their projects and this is almost always the key issue: ...

It was a long time ago, right before the era when you could look up anything on your iPhone. I was having my 7,000th conversation over a difficult breakup at a bar with a good friend. I’m not sure if he did it to be authentically helpful––or if he was just trying to distract me––but he stopped my rant,...

This happened during a near prehistoric time before GPS was a given. Just FYI, it was also my first time driving a minivan. My blood pressure soared as I desperately searched for the offices of Roger Corman, producer/director of such films as Little Shop of Horrors, Teenage Cavemen, Sharktopus, and, of...

This guided visualization meditation is 6 minutes long, followed by 10 minutes more of music by my friend David Buchs. It can be streamed or downloaded. Click toDownload

Although the first recorded use of the term “facepalm” only dates back to 1996, the concept is eternal. In fact, if you’re trolling around the Tuileries Garden in Paris, you can see a statue of Cain demonstrating it after he killed his brother Abel. (You really can’t get much further back in human h...

Yes, there are lots of things in 2020 we might all be missing. For example… I grew up in a small Connecticut town where since 1927 there’s been a 4.7 mile road race each Thanksgiving. The first race had only 12 participants. In the last decade, there have been more than 15,000 runners, including th...

I don’t remember the plot well but I do remember being frightened.  And a little confused. Unlike almost all New Age advice, the instruction given to Carole Anne in Poltergeist is: “Do NOT go into the light!” It made sense in terms of that film, but for almost every sci-fi moment, and every...