If there is a feeling I know intimately, it’s fear. As a child, I was afraid of the dark and slept with my closet light on. I closed the closet door, of course, because the open space and shadows coming from the closet were scary, too. A tiny sliver of light, however,...
We tend to think about routines when a new school season begins. Yet, I find that one of the key tricks to keeping my life on track is going to bed at the same time no matter what. That can feel challenging when summer is here and the sun doesn’t set until late....
For the last decade, the underlying core and belief of my life has been to choose to love it. It doesn’t mean that I’m happy all the time, but each day finds at least a few moments of perfection. That’s a question I get a lot: how to love your life...
It seems like only yesterday we were asking all of our clocks and watches to fall back and here we are on the edges of spring already, with our clocks ready to be shifted back to daylight savings time. Though our initial reaction may be to just complain about how...
Most of what I write here in the blog is about how I stay devoted to my desire to live a conscious life, because I know that the biggest challenge to staying devoted to the kind of life we say we want to live requires routines, rituals, and a variety of little tricks...
One of the hardest things to do is to admit what we really want in our lives. We fear ever uttering aloud those secret longings and the dreams we’ve been avoiding. So, we keep them hidden from the world, those desires. Often from ourselves. Not only do our minds...
Creating a life you love is really about finding pleasure in the day-to-day living. To seek the gems in the midst of the craziness that sometimes accompanies us in this life. It also involves feeling the gamut of feelings. We focus on those sweet feelings, the joyful...