The first things I learned about taking care of myself were extremely basic.  The beautiful lady I call my spiritual mother explained to me ...

Taking care of myself was not a concept I had ever heard of, let alone practiced when I entered adulthood.  In fact, I am still learning how...

I don't watch the news very much because there's so much trouble in the world I can't do anything about.  I do try to catch up o...

In recent years I've realized that I had a lot of beliefs that I acquired as a child that are not true at all.  I doubt that anyone actu...

It's been a long time since I've written a letter to an elected official.  I live in a state where all the elected officials think e...

Amazon.com has read my mind.  I get emails every few days, letting me know about books I might want to read based on what I've purchased...

It seems so strange to me how my mind wants to be so passive.  Maybe it's the character defect of sloth.  I made no plans for my birthda...

I think it was 1964.  I had a baby and a two year old.  It was early in the morning and I wasn't all the way awake.  I had just changed ...

I love company.  I love solitude.  In the past week I've had both.  First my daughter and her oldest son and his wife were here, and we ...

The last time I was bored I was about four years old and in church with my parents.  There was not one single thing for a four year old to d...

A couple of my friends were disappointed with what their children did for Mother's Day.  It occurred to me that I have never been disapp...

Anne Lamott wrote an article titled, "Why I Hate Mother's Day" on Salon.com.  I thought about my own mixed feelings about Moth...

I finally made it to a neighborhood party.  They have one about every year but I am shy and stay home.  Today I went for about half an hour ...

Just finished reading a book called, "The Power of Habit."   It's a best seller and goes nicely with my constant reading of th...

I wish I had that piece of my mind back now. They didn't want it anyway. And now I just feel foolish. No wonder with such a big ...

Not only do two Ding-a-Lings not make a bell; a rooster and a hen don't make a farm.  I heard these sayings in a meeting the other night...

I just realized today that my studies and my spiritual practices are coalescing into a pattern.  This happens all the time, but I'm alwa...

This is so wild, so funny and so true.  My Zen Habits guy that I've been following for a few years now is all about leading a simpler, l...

It's a fact that you never have to have an argument with another person as long as you live!  I can prove the truth of this because I st...

In addition to criticism and being bossed, people really, really, hate being ignored.  I've heard it said that children will disobey, kn...