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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 [...]

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 [...]

Sleeping in… on a supremely cooshy bed, with soft sheets, and the perfect pillow. Sipping a fabulous cup of coffee in a sunny window seat from a mug that I cradle with both hands. Taking [...]

The blues went away when I began to honor my long-postponed dream/desire/obsession with going back to school to finish an interrupted bachelor’s degree. Thirty some years later I enrolled [...]

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 [...]

“My life will always have dirty dishes. If this sink can become a place of contemplation, let me learn constancy here.” – Gunilla Norris, Being Home Since my last post, I’ve been [...]

The list below comes from an article I wrote called “Self-Care and Clutter Clearing Go Together: Ten Ways to Lighten Up by Feeling Good.” What I love about these simple practices is [...]

“Simplify, simplify…” –Henry David Thoreau Last night I watched the second segment of Brian Williams’ “Inside the Obama White House,” which aired on NBC last [...]