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It started a few weeks ago. I got the first inkling while reading this wonderful book, Traveling with Pomegranates. Some close friends been extolling the book for months now. Written by a mother [...]

“Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History”  – Laurel Thatcher Ulrich I’m loving the introspection that the  A Year With Myself Adventure Kit is inspiring. Well, maybe [...]

At age 50 I was taking a course called A Year with Myself, and one of the prompts involved writing a letter to your younger self. I decided to write a letter to myself at 50. The exercise got me [...]

I first tried to meditate when I was 19. I sat in my college dorm room, in as much of a lotus position as I could manage, and gazed at a candle flame. Then I closed my eyes, counted the beats of [...]

When my daughter Ciel was just four or five years old, we lived in a little, decrepit cottage backed up into a hillside. Ciel slept in the room in the back of the house, but during our first [...]

For many years I dreaded the winter holidays almost as much as I anticipated them. As the owner of a retail business, preparations for this time of year began, literally, in spring or early [...]

It’s holiday time again.  The songs and carols remind us that “it’s the most wonderful time of the year,” and that we should be filled with merriment and holiday cheer. Instead, many of us find [...]

Last night while lying in bed – exhausted and fuzzy-headed too long a day that had culminated in a few too many drinks at my sister’s party – I almost started crying. I lay [...]

Mother’s Day has carried a bit of a sad charge for me for almost 30 years. The first one after my mom died was the worst. Surrounded by media injunctions to “Make It Great for [...]