​​ A friend wrote a few weeks ago saying she couldn't sense any equilibrium coming her way. I wrote back that maybe right now life felt...

I call them mom-isms, my mother’s newly found perspectives that speak of Buddhist equanimity with a dash of slapstick humor. She offered...

It’s that “into the cave” time of year. I’m wearing sweaters and scarves, the mesquite leaves are turning silver, the holidays are here...

“If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.” -Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spanish poet A week ago we woke up, ready to go home. On the...

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are...

As I prepare to leave for the Spacious in Spain women’s retreat my friend Stephanie and I have been nurturing for over a year, the pace...

Due to the present workload, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off until further notice. — Sign in Hobo’s Café in North...

“A paradox is not a conflict within reality. It is a conflict between reality and your feelings of what reality should be like.” —...

It is on a threshold, at the edge, where we are most able to alter our understanding of the world, and of our own lives in it. — Gregory...

On April 28th I wrote a post titled Embracing Edginess. In it I quoted Pema Chodron from her book, Practicing Peace in Times of War: If...