Posted On: November 3, 2014
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Our obsession with smartphones festers on. Go to a social spot like a bar or a rock concert and most everyone is focused on their phone. Students list “no wifi” as a reason they won’t…
Posted On: April 18, 2014
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This morning, I woke up too early. The wind had been whistling and whirring for hours. And when I headed down the hallway, the cold breeze that sneaks through lake-facing windows chilled me. Then I…
Posted On: May 31, 2013
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“Meditation goes mainstream” shouted the headline in yesterday’s local paper. Then followed a lengthy article about the many benefits (some now proven by science!) and how the practice has become embraced by employers, schools, churches,…
Posted On: May 21, 2013
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In a Zenny mindfulness class I’m taking, a woman explained the mantra she asks herself whenever she senses her brain wandering cluelessly:
“Am I present?”
Most people anymore might prefer to ask themselves,
“Am I…
Posted On: December 21, 2011
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I love the long days…”
So goes a phrase exchanged by a faraway friend and me every 12-21 and 6-21, to mark the winter and summer solstice.
When we shared a shabby duplex some 20…
Posted On: October 3, 2011
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On the freeway, dude in the pick-up behind me talks on his cellphone, snarfs a sandwich, and tailgates like we’re attached until I leave the lane.
Downtown, woman in high heels texts while j-strutting through…
Posted On: July 30, 2011
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In the pursuit of repose and pleasure, one can find inspiration in the strangest of places. For me, being in the middle of a body of water virtually guarantees some soothing soul space. But be…
Posted On: May 31, 2011
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As one of my morning rituals, I walk part-way to the bus stop with my teenage son. We don’t say much. It’s early and sometimes dark and cold, after all. But like the other kids…
Posted On: November 22, 2010
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Happy birthday to Me. Yep, it’s arrived: The Big 5-Oh.
Now there’s a number that screams for extreme measures. So I made a list of, oh, 50 things I might do to commemorate, celebrate, and…
Posted On: April 16, 2010
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When schlepping more stuff into the house the other day, a brilliant idea hit me:
How about a family project in which we try to acquire nothing new for one month. (Okay, except for food…
