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...

Or at least let them come from Emily Dickinson: “Hope is the thing with feathersThat perches in the soulAnd sings the tune without the wordsAnd never stops never stops at all.” ― Emily Dickinson This weekend… Celebrating ! Next week…Back to regularly scheduled newsletter programing. Namaste for N...

It was a moment that really changed things for me. (Maybe it will do the same thing for you, too.) It was several years ago, and I was asking my wise and wonderful friend (the mega-selling author & artist) SARK for advice. In brief, someone was behaving badly. Specifically, someone who often be...

This eight-minute Acceptance Meditation is an invitation to release resistance, reconnect with the present moment, and discover that acceptance doesn’t mean giving up. The guided meditation is followed by seven minutes of additional music by David Buchs if you want to go deeper. Downl...