I’m not the kind of person who loses things. In fact, since college, I can only recall one significant loss of property or possessions. On New Year’s Eve fifteen years ago, after a chaotic period of couch surfing, I signed a lease for my new apartment.  That night I lost my keys. (Note: It was...

Man plans, and God laughs. –– Yiddish Proverb–– Spring tends to make a lot of promises… Sunnier, longer days. The possibility of storing your winter parka. And, of course, flowers. In past years, Belle, Cha Cha, and I simply jumped into a Zipcar and traveled to our favorite New Jersey ...

This Guided meditation is 8 minutes, followed by 7 more minutes of music by my friend David Buchs. Listen here… Or click toDownload

Last February, I left an apartment I loved. (I really didn’t want to.) It had a huge terrace that was empty when I moved in. Through Freecycle, I found this donated tree, the one in the background. (Honestly, it was really more of a six-foot-tall twig.) And then, over five years, it grew to th...

This Tuesday, and I know this sounds unbelievable, but I actually got a text from someone asking if I wanted to meet up for drinks that night, hoping I was “dealing with all this coronavirus hype.” I waited a day to respond. I told him that unfortunately, I didn’t think it was all hype since someone I ...

Let’s face it: things are weird. (And getting weirder). Businesses I’ve been to only once (even just online) are telling me every single safety precaution they’re taking right now. At the same time, some major wellness sites are somehow not addressing things at all, going about business as usual. B...

The best thing to do in any crisis is to stay calm. CHILL OUT, in other words. I’ve already given you tons of free meditations but I wanted to do something more during this crazy time. …Wavy Screen Flashback Moment… It was an unusual first meeting, to say the least. I was introduced to Kell...

I stumbled across something this week that really shocked me. A very popular media figure revealed that they had been a spiritual teacher for almost a decade before they understood anything about the breath. In my world, that’s like saying: “I’ve been driving on super-highways since the 90s, and only...

Some of my best friends––and I say this with love––are crackpots. According to Merriam-Webster, the term “Crackpot” means:  One given to eccentric or lunatic notions… Or, as the Cambridge Dictionary puts it (a little more harshly): A crazy or strange person. Of course, lunacy (and/or normali...