On Skiing and Fear
On a crisp, clear winter evening, my daughter and I rode the ski lift to the top of the mountain. …
Category Archives: Forgiveness
Lessons from the Grand Canyon
Originally published on October 13, 2013. A large framed print of this image hangs in my living room. I see …
Zen and the Mama Bear
Below is a video of the piece I read for the Listen To Your Mother Show in Washington, DC on …
Easter
In his book, Callings, Gregg Levoy cites Nobel Prize-winning Belgian physicist Ilya Prigogine’s theory of dissipative structures, which contends that …
Forces of Nature: My Messy, Beautiful
My chest tightens. There’s a dull hum in my ears. I am feeling crushed. I can’t breathe. It may be …
The Flip-side
My life can be divided into a lot of befores and afters: lines in the sand delineating shifts in perspective …
Happiness Radar
During both of my pregnancies, I couldn’t go anywhere without feeling that I was surrounded by a disproportionate number of …
The Search for Treasure
Once upon a time, there was a gypsy girl who felt her life was destined for great adventure. Young, full …
Magic Words
When the kids were little, and we wanted to teach them good manners, we would prompt them with, “What’s the …
Lessons from the Playground
My family and I spent Saturday at a state park where we hiked for a while until we reached a …
