Depending on your perspective, it’s either very cute or slightly creepy. It was announced this week that rats are being trained to rescue humans from collapsed buildings. Equipped with tiny backpacks, they’re ideally suited for the job. Rats love to explore and sift through rubble, and are delight...

Vlad and I entered innocently enough, arriving at our small rooftop dog park as we do several times a day. This time, however, things immediately felt different. The air itself was highly charged, thick with intense debate. It seemed wrong to attempt to jump into such a heated conversation so we s...

October Meditation is HERE. I succeeded this week because, as the endlessly repeated pop culture meme posits, for once I actually understood the assignment. More specifically, I got a perfect score on my final Executive MBA requirement, the Corporate Finance Case Study. I correctly used Excel form...

I hate to be gender-normative (or even breed-ist) and yet… At the end of the day, my chocolate lab Belle was always the perfect lady. She was the straight-A student (and class president) who was kind to all her friends and still found time to read to the blind. Vlad is…well… A lovable bad boy m...

Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; You can use it anytime, anywhere unobtrusively.” –Sharon Salzberg Almost everyone now believes they “should” be meditating. There are endless studies proving how just good it is for us. (And God knows we need it.) And yet something so...

“The worst crime is faking it.” –Kurt Cobain I admit that have been TOTALLY ABSENT from social media (and newsletters like this) lately. This is considered a serious crime (at least by my agents and managers and publicists) for anyone who creates original work,...

I love this year’s birthday dropback photo taken by my great friend Sarah Herrington. Other than changing the background and/or my outfit, it’s hard to find a new spin on this series but in 2016 we found one: just add my Mom! She did confess that it was easier to give birth to me than to watch ...

I almost worried that my upstairs neighbors or those walking by on the street might think I’d murdered a tiny person and was getting rid of the body. As you can see, that’s what the disposal of my arbor vitae pretty much looked like. The rest of my Urban Garden is a total triumph. The mint and ...

Forget about endless Chaturanga. Savasana might just be the most challenging pose for many type-A yogis. Even B.K.S. Iyengar himself admits that: (for the rest of my essay, check it out online at Mind Body Green.