Last week I made myself sick. Well, me and some streptococcus bacteria. First I feared COVID. Egads. But one swab up my nose and one down...

Part 3: “Mind what you have learned. Save you it can.” I spent the better part of a recent Friday trying to get ahold of Oregon...

Part 2: Without No, there can be no Yes.

As we strive to change the world, is it selfish to work on ourselves? Or is it the only way?

Playing with arithmetic today, I figure I’ve taken over 200 walks in the last 13 weeks since I’ve been staying at home. Yesterday I baked...

My 95-year-old Grannie says she’s under house arrest. No, no, everyone assures her, she’s in protective custody. How are you doing in...

I propose we spend a few minutes every day taking some time to PAUSE. Taking some time to reorganize ourselves.

I thanked the word NO, for giving me this much-needed solitude.

Asking the right questions might be most life-affirming favor we can do for someone. Or for ourselves.

My ability to manage the HOW I do things is the difference between feeling steamrolled by my life and feeling like I can (just) manage it.

“If I’m not scared, I’m not doing enough,” Mary told me. This was her attitude toward life. She was a jazz singer I took lessons with...

Changing my position, giving myself, quite literally, a different perspective, tends to rattle something free in my brain.

What if we were to expand our idea of ourselves to include the WHOLE THING?

To do one thing at a time is so unusual in our culture that we may feel sheepish doing it. It’s downright counter-cultural. It’s radical.

$100,000,000,000 – Estimated Total Cost (per year) associated with Back Pain in the US (as of 2009). 31,000,000 – Number of Americans...

Saying NO to the million tiny habits of body and mind that contribute to feeling diminished, to feeling like I can’t go on.

I kept catching myself lifting my shoulders, hunching toward my paper and holding my breath. Old habits die hard.

Sometimes the most “productive” thing to do is nothing. Productive of renewed energy, refreshed thinking, rediscovered enthusiasm.

When I was little, my mother put a piece of paper on the fridge with a magnet. On the paper she had written “NO COMPLAINING!” That...

Hunching over or puffing up are not benign, but are instead powerful information about what is happening inside our children (and ourselves)