The first paragraph if John Cheever’s “The Swimmer”, shows suburban couples nonchalantly talking about how they all “drank too much” last night, and although, this is a potential problem due to the lack of comfortability around the physical effects of the hangovers, a bigger problem would be to not have a hangover, as that would be going against the grain.   There exists an unspoken rule that they are all in this together, this suburban world in the 1960’s. This group of hung

People suffer. That is part of the human experience. According to Buddha, though, suffering is optional, and we have control over how we...

Last week, on the flight to my father’s funeral in Las Vegas, I meditated on how I would craft his Eulogy, and decided on the Hermit Crab...

I don’t know what I would do without YouTube. It has everything that I need, when I want to know how to do something. YouTube taught me...

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in his essay “Self-Reliance,”  explained that “We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers...

Benjamin Franklin was a brilliant writer, inventor, businessman, and human, who valued introspection and meditation. He worked toward...

“She has your nose”, I said. “Poor her.” “Your nose is perfect.”  “You’re my mother, you have to say that.”   My daughter held up a...

When my children fell, I fell with them. When they were in despair, I despaired too. I stayed awake many nights worried. I talked about...

The five of us sat in our homes on opposite sides of the country looking at a screen.  I set up the sibling zoom meeting for the purpose...

I remarried in October of 2007, after being a single mother for seven years. That first Christmas, everything the kids asked for, their...

“It’s all here, Mom.” My son Christopher would say, when looking up at the stars. “What is?” I’d ask “This. Life. The real part. You are...

When pendulums swing far to the north, they are sure to swing just as far to the south because, according to the laws of physics, every...

Why does a story need conflict and resolution to be accepted or desired? I’ve been told if people are to engage in the story, it must...

Yogic philosophy teaches that we think, speak, and act in a non-harmful way. In Sanskrit it is called (Ahimsa). I've learned that what...

Because Mom didn’t do the allowance thing, I took a job delivering the Philadelphia Inquirer. It seemed simple enough. “It’s easy.”  The...

Before I became a yoga instructor and massage therapist, I worked in restaurants and doctor's offices. In each of these places, I was...

I look down at my Lab mix, Millie and tell her, loud enough so that my husband hears, “I know, Millie. It’s OK. Thank God you have Mommy....

Two days ago, I met my friend for breakfast. We became friends when we were young and didn’t know about life, but thought we did. We were...

Arms draped by my side, palms facing up, feet relaxed, my eyes grab the light sneaking in from the sunroof of the yoga studio, after an...

Thursday mornings usually bustled with twenty women, and two men, rushing to find their space in the yoga room where they could lay down...