Sweet poetry

Sometimes one of life’s great joys is simply plucking a long-abandoned book off one’s own shelves and getting lost in its magic. Found on my poetry shelf The Subject Tonight Is Love, 60 Wild and Sweet Poems of Hafiz by Daniel Ladinsky and settled into a...

New Mexico dreams

The last time I was in New Mexico was in August of 2001. It was transformative and I came back feeling so renewed. Then 9/11 happened just weeks later and my Zen evaporated. Or did it? I think it may have actually emerged. I can hardly wait to return there this coming...

Note to self

If I’m any kind of life coach at all, it’s essential that I get some perspective from the personal events of today and extract the lesson for myself just as I would for a client. So here goes. Stop lowering your expectations. In fact, raise them. A lot....

Presidential seal of approval

A few clicks into the bookshelf to the right of this blog post, readers will find among the books I heartily recommend is Life of Pi by Yann Martel. So I was heartened to see that President Obama sent some fan mail to Martel after reading it with his daughter. The...