I was genuinely surprised, even taken aback, the first time I heard this line. It was more than a decade ago, during an energy healing session a colleague had offered me. I’ve since heard variations of it via other practitioners in many different modalities. That first time, however, was during an...

This guided meditation is 7 minutes long with an extra 5 minutes more of music by my talented friend David Buchs You can stream it here or download in the link below. CLICK TODownload

First, he never actually said it. Second, as metaphorical advice, it’s pretty terrific, yet if taken literally, it’s definitely unwise at best. I’m referring to the adage often incorrectly ascribed to Hemingway: Write Drunk,  Edit Sober. Despite his well-documented problems with alcohol,...

I don’t think he learned it from Bill Gates. (At least not directly). But as I was reading through the next section of Essentialism, I couldn’t help but wonder about yet another quirky, self-taught aspect of Vlad’s behavior. (And it’s one that’s escalated considerably now that the Brooklyn tempera...

It’s a problem I face only a few times a year. Nonetheless, I find myself resisting solving it, perhaps for reasons beyond how it tests my patience. Namely, the wind chimes that my friend Pam gave me as a sweet memorial gift when Belle went to her heavenly reward desperately require untangling. ...

I found the Academy Awards this year both moving and disorienting. While I was pleased with many of the winners, given that the theme I’ve been exploring this month is Resilience (Meditation HERE), several of the “Never Give Up On Your Dream” Victory Speechesinspired reflection, if not outright skeptici...

Last week I shared how my pre-Covid project about Resilience got completely derailed before it even left the station. When it was still alive and kicking, however, I remember googling images for Resilience mostly to decorate the covers of my research binders. Sadly, almost everything that came up was...

I just assumed the phrase was always more or less with us. Yet there actually is an origin story. As I was researching other classic paradoxes for this month’s theme, it turns out that the line “Less is More” first appears in Andrea del Sarto, a poem by Robert Browning about the artist. The poem b...

It’s not a problem I ever envisioned having. More accurately, I never really calculated this particular disruption in my generally cozy life. You see, this morning my iPhone told me the temperature outside with wind chill felt like -11°. Blessed with excellent central heating, it seemed a perfect ...