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It’s that time of year again – the annual scramble to order, buy, wrap, ship… Tell me, does anyone out there find all this acquisitive crazy-making fun?!? And how does one honor the [...]

“Stay in your own lane. Comparison kills creativity and joy.”–Brené Brown. We all do it. In a dual world of better and worse, bigger and smaller, winners and losers, we all fall into [...]

“Change happens slowly, then all at once.”–Your Spacious Self. No sooner had my husband and I returned from a six-month sabbatical in Mexico than we went on a top-to-bottom tear of [...]

“Whatever your passion is, do it! Do it not because of some desired outcome, but because your soul depends on it.”–Stephanie Bennett Vogt I put together a short video that tells my [...]

It is considered the end. Or the beginning of the end. If you’ve hit a certain numerical marker, you’re over the hill. Certain body parts aren’t moving quite as fast as they [...]

“Allow the mystery… This is a very fertile place in which to hang out if you can bear the uncertainty and discomfort of it.”–Your Spacious Self. Some of you may remember what [...]

An oldie but goodie: Two buddhist monks from the same monastery were traveling through a heavy forest. The older, more experienced monk walked in the front while his younger counterpart walked [...]

Seeing takes time. -Georgia O’Keefe. Dear Friends, On January 1st of this year, my husband Jay and I left our home in Concord, Massachusetts to spend six months in the mystical, magical [...]

“Rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” –JK Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address. I’ve written scads on the subject of how our living spaces are [...]

Cowbirds or starlings, I’m not sure what it was that we witnessed last week soaring in the high desert country of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. This sunset ritual is not to be believed. [...]