New FREE Offering HERE. I admit to being a little distracted as I write this. Vlad also seems a little unnerved, specifically by the large mass of balloons that have just arrived. He’s usually fine with balloons but these are all clumped together in a large plastic bag, floating like some lumpy al...

For once, I took my own advice. You see, this past week––as my last newsletter advised and around which I themed the new meditation––on two counts I actually “Did Something Different.” Not to be boastful, but the results were…well…quietly miraculous. The first, is a domestic debt I owe to, of all ...

Before things went sideways, I honestly thought that the week was off to a great start. On Monday, I had my teeth cleaned and had no cavities. (This is an ongoing personal triumph of sorts, but more about that later.) And on Thursday, Malibu’s parents, after encountering a travel snag, asked if Vl...

New Meditation of the Month is HERE I admit that I was working from a very short list of suspects. Even so, since I didn’t know exactly when the thieving began, I was truly at a loss…and in more ways than one. It might have been relatively recent. Or it could have dated back to June 2011 when t...

Lawrence Kasdan, co-writer of Raiders of the Lost Arc and a bunch of the Star Wars movies summarized my fate best: “Being a writer is like having homeworkevery night for the rest of your life.” This began as a rare week where I thought I knew early on what I was going to write this newsletter about, ...

June Meditation of the Month is HERE I admit I am profoundly prejudiced on this topic, but I do sincerely believe my puppy Vlad is a genius. He is, however, making one major miscalculation these days, one tactical error that’s utterly self-defeating for his goals. Namely, he thinks that if he hide...

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...

I wish I could tell you what I’m launching in a month. (I can’t…not just yet.) But I can tell you that it involves the power of groups, of tribes, of like-minded people gathered together. And part of me hates that because … Like 2/3 of the people in a recent Wharton study, I̵...

I honestly think that there’s nothing more annoying than being told by a New Age person that you need to “Let Go,” to “Surrender.” This is particularly true when your life hovers somewhere between (a euphemistically phrased) “Challenge” to “Outr...