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Here’s something I don’t understand: Seeing a drainer full of dry dishes getting piled onto by a layer of wet ones because nobody bothers to put away the original set. Am I the only [...]

What’s going through your mind? What I mean is… What are you thinking about? Right this second. Do you have 35 things spinning around in your head at the same time? Are you skimming [...]

I love the simplicity of venturing out every week to the local CSA farm where we get our produce. Tromping through the fields to gather fresh flowers, pick raspberries (which never make it past [...]

It’s the name of a book I bought on pure impulse. And desire. Permission to Nap. I love the title. It’s so luxurious. It captures the essence so much better than the Spanish word [...]

I don’t know about you, but one longing glance at a potato chip or a kiddie-size cone seems to automatically add a pound on my scale the next morning. It’s a bummer too. When I was [...]

How do we cultivate happiness in hard times? Especially when there is so much stress in the world. Today’s five-minute movie feature is Tony Robbins on Good Morning America. Though his [...]

What I really want to know is: Are you happy? I came upon two articles recently that got my attention. Maureen Dowd reported in her New York Times Op-Ed piece Blue Is the New Black that [...]

“There is nothing either good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.” –Shakespeare, Hamlet Have you ever stopped whatever you were doing to simply observe your thoughts? Yes, to do nothing else but [...]

Sometimes life delivers a perfect storm of disasters that are so bad they’re funny. It’s almost like the Universe is doing a koochie-koo to get us to take ourselves less seriously. My [...]

It seems that many good books these days are made into a movie. At four minutes long maybe my movie isn’t Hollywood or Sundance material, but it does have a soundtrack and it is designed to [...]