The holidays are almost exactly half a year apart, but in my mind there’s an unusual link between the Summer Equinox and New Year’s Eve. Specifically, it happened on my most memorable equinox moment ever, when I taught a live yoga class in Times Square. The annual event — dubbed “Mind ...

This guided meditation opens with a four-minute centering exercise, followed by a timed five-minute invitation to write freely, and then a short closing moment. Of course, you can write in whatever way suits you best—but it’s wise to have your pen and paper (or your laptop) handy. Enjoy the process o...

I thought the most memorable moment this holiday was when — on our final midnight walk — Vlad and I saw a fully grown deer bolt across the privately lit community college parking lot, only to stop and stare back at us from a relatively safe distance. We frequently see deer on our mountain hikes — and on...

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...

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One part of what makes Awkward Beginnings — this month’s theme, meditation HERE — so challenging is that they often involve some variation of the burden of proof. As every courtroom TV fan knows, legally this means convincing a judge or a jury, through a preponderance of evidenc...