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I’m into good food. Food that tastes good and haunts my dreams. Mostly I stick to minimally processed stuff, but only most of the time....

Pleasure and pain can coexist. You have to get used to it. I was lucky enough today to do a guided meditation with my friend, body work...

At this crazy-ass time, when the world seems to be falling apart, don't forget that you already have first-hand experience of what this...

If you are taking anti-depressants or anti-anxiety medication, don't forget to take them! Sometimes you fall off a cliff. And then do it...

Fall in love with yourself. It's been over a year now since Tom died and I've learned one really significant thing. I have begun to learn...

Today my friend Mary Bernal sent me a link to a beautiful letter that Albert Einstein wrote his daughter Lieseri. I'm including a link...

It's the counter-intuitive advice for the new year: Simplify your goals. Or, better yet, dump them. In the throes of grief, you just put...

Find your grief legs. One day in grief may or may not look like the last...or the next. Just when I was patting myself on the head. "Good...

Your normal will never be normal again. That's an uh-duh, I know, but it hides an opportunity. Yes, I'll have a new normal. Whether I...

Anniversaries just suck. No other way to say it. The birthdays, holidays, and special days just the two of you shared are flat-out...

I've been thinking a lot about circulariy lately. Lots of time to think, since I've spent well over a month now, either on leave from...

Oh my gosh goodness, great balls of fire. I have just had an exquisite, I do say exquisite meal. At the fashionable hour of midnight,...

Imagine that you have just dived into a shallow clear pond. The water is so crystalline that you can sit at the bottom of the pond and...

I may have said it before, but I am going to say it again: Get your movement on. I just got back from an Open Floor Dance night....

At Windhover Contemplation Center on the Stanford campus

Gather by the hearth of your comfort shows. I've spent an incredible amount of time this past 10 months watching Jeeves and Wooster,...

On January 27, 2019, my husband died suddenly, in my arms, on the lawn under the redwoods outside of our apartment. It totally sideswiped...

(As much a tip for friends of grievers.) Is it only me who thinks a fabulous gift to bring to someone grieving is several boxes of...

If you don't regularly get your home professionally cleaned, do it. Get a thorough cleaning. Go ahead and rearrange things the way you...

The photo that accompanies this post was a holiday card we sent a few years ago. I love this picture a lot and it has served as a focal...