5 Connections Between the Pilgrims and Yoga
A reflection on what the Pilgrims who observed the first Thanksgiving and yoga have taught me. ...
Spirituality
A Contemplation on Mortality
What’s your strategy for dealing with this?...
Try This Meditation Now: A Dose of Reality
The purpose is to encourage us to drink deeply of the present moment and to be fully conscious of our experience. ...
Standing Tall On Racism
Those hate-filled calls taught me a real life lesson in compassion for those who are victimized by hatred. ...
The Healing Dinner Party
Whenever there’s some praying to be done, we open our recipe books way more enthusiastically than we do our prayer books....
Religion And Humor: Funny You Should Ask
“If it turns out there is a God,” Woody Allen once declared, “I don’t think he’s evil. I think the worst you can say about Him is that He’s an underachiever.”...
Tranquil Moments
Now that I’m old enough to have wrinkles, I realize that a major joy of the 50+ life stage is the ability to give myself permission to just be. ...
Doorway To The Divine
One year ago, I experienced what I have since come to refer to as a near-death experience....
How Much Risk Are You Willing to Take To Have Fun?
I received a calm message from a skilled ER administrator: “Your husband has had a bike accident -- please come to the ER.”...
Dear God, Please Help My Mother Die
Although I've seriously pondered it, there is no legal way for me to help my mother die....
Why 60 Is The New 60
When I was fifty-six, things started to change. I learned how to meditate. I wrote a book about my attempt to heal from the panic disorder......
Building A Legacy Without Regrets
I hope I will not feel as though I have been sleepwalking through life when the time for real sleep comes....
Why I’m Trying 49 New Things Before I Turn 50
I've jumped from the roof of the Stratosphere Hotel in Las Vegas, rode in a bobsled down the ice track at Utah Olympic Park, skydived, hang glided, and BASE jumped from the Perrine Bridge in Twin Falls, Idaho....
Does Downsizing Mean Loss?
I’ve considered whether down-sizing now also speaks to my life diminishing. ...
Anna Quindlen’s Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake
Every once in a while we meet our long-ago selves across a dining table or a desk, when younger women come to ask for advice or to interview for a job. ...
Party In Hell
Could you please give me a magic kick out of self-pity?...
Interfaith Easter? Oy!
As an interfaith child raised with one religion, I can attest to the benefits, and the drawbacks....
Passover – Spring cleaning for your Soul
In order to prepare ourselves to let go of the traps in our life, we physically clean our homes....
Death with Dignity?
Death by deliberate choice or suicide can feel like a selfish act to those who are left to deal with the loss....
Yoga and Sex: Are You Kidding?
Sorry, all you yogis out there who “get” this causal relationship between yoga and sex....