Vacation, all I ever wanted

A few days ago I wrote a blog post called Foggy to Clear that expressed some relief about turning a physical and emotional corner in the challenge that has been 2012. That night I realized that my work obligations had been met and that I could award myself a 24-hour...

All layers of gifts

This one is pretty self-explanatory. Last week I was picking up a book for a friend’s child and wound up deep in conversation with the guy selling me the book. I had seen Woody Allen’s To Rome With Love a few days before, a little escape to New...

Foggy to clear

When I woke up this morning, I knew this: I was suffering some kind of setback with my knee and I was afraid to find out what the orthopedist would say when I visited him at 4 p.m. About three weeks ago, feeling on a healing upswing, I disembarked from a very late...

Verdant yearnings

So often we run into situations where we think the grass is greener or people think our grass is greener and project it all over us. Decided to drill down on that a bit this week and it brought to mind an encounter with a former life coaching client. Today’s...

Quotable

Love this writer tidbit from Lucas Kavner’s Huffington Post interview of Tim Kreider, whose excellent New York Times piece called “The Busy Trap” went crazy viral last week: Whether he’s examining a complicated, frustrating relationship with a...