Tonight, if you can find a place without too many streetlights and the sky is fairly clear, look up in the northeast and take note of the largest shining object you can see. What you see is a planet:...

The other day, I opened the kitchen drawer to grab a sheet of leftover newspaper that I use to cover my kitchen counter from splatters and noticed I was down to my last sheet. I can’t get an...

Sometimes this is how the day goes. All organized, ready to teach, ready to travel. My suitcase is packed and my schedule is tight, but it’s going to work. I’m planning to leave for the airport...

We create our stories, we repeat our stories, we believe our stories. Joel told me he’s not the kind of person to punch his fist through a wall when he’s aggravated. He’s a department...

I’ve been a patient about a million times. There are so many dehumanizing aspects to being immersed in a medical system, but one thing that torques me off quite a bit is the dreaded medical intake...

In the latter part of the last century, there was a story going around about a woman law student in the graduating class before me who was asked whether she knew how to type in a job interview. Back...

I’ve been thinking a lot about my memories —the silly ones I retain, the important ones I don’t have access to any longer. It haunts me. The memories wash up like unremarkable and practically...

Here’s a line I often hear when I’m in a conversation with someone about the benefits of a mindfulness meditation practice: “Of course, I should learn to meditate but my spouse/family...

There’s a technique for teaching mindfulness meditation to children that involves shaking up a snow globe and then watching it slowly slowly settle down. There are lots of variations on this exercise...

It used to be when I taught meditation, I taught the way I’d been taught: sit in stillness for twenty minutes every day. I teach differently now. Too many people have sheepishly told me they manage to...

(or how my meditation practice committed to me) For many people it’s to decrease anxiety or to lessen what they describe as stress. For me, the initial goal was to complete writing a novel. It was a...

My cousin Sue sells more residential real estate than anyone else in her city. Her grandchildren live on the other side of the country and she visits them frequently. She is accomplished and organized...