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Each year, on December 31, I sit down with my tea and a big pad of paper and my notebook and I dream. I begin by dreaming into the center of my own heart – my physical heart and my imaginal [...]

This morning, as I sipped my tea, I read two stories In this week’s New York Times Magazine. In the first one, Al Franken, the former SNL comedian who is now a US Senator, discusses the [...]

Your overwhelm is a teacher – it’s guidance, letting you know that life is beginning to deliver the ‘more’ you’ve been asking for and that you have reached an [...]

Today, I had a dream that I had awakened in my dorm room, and realized: Oh no! I have slept through the explanation of the first two bardos!  I felt terribly embarrassed about this. I wanted so [...]

“Do you want to see it?” Mom asks. When I nod, she unhooks her bra and shows me the incision where her doctor performed a lumpectomy, removing a tumor the size of a sesame seed. “It’s beautiful,” [...]

All of my friends had stopped loving me. My husband no longer slept beside me. I cried for a while and then I realized that there was someone beside me – or more accurately, INSIDE of me.  [...]

Your expectations are too high.  We expect too much of ourselves all the time – but at this time of year, our expectations about what ‘the holidays should be like’ are massaged [...]

In which I am Interviewed by Emelia Sam for her beautiful PIQUE podcast series. PIQUE is a *Peek* in on an intimate, thought-provoking conversation with some of the most interesting, [...]