I have just returned from a relaxing holiday in the Bahamas with my daughters and some friends.  We arrived at Nassau Airport with an abundance of time before our flight, so I poked around the local craft shop. YES-scored a great deal on some LOVELY necklaces and match...

At the end of August, I started driving my younger daughter to and from high school.  The “to school” leg of the journey wasn’t so bad, although there was a ton of traffic, and trying to get down the street with teenagers and parents bolting out in front of me from the...

There is a lot of buzz…beyond buzz at this point….about mindfulness. Mindfulness in the workplace. Mindfulness in the schools. Mindfulness in healthcare-in mental health-in sports-the arts-and yes, even in parenting and relationship. What is mindfulness? Why the buzz?...

Looking at the berries on the holly bush outside the building where I taught this morning, this cold, grey, November morning ,  I saw it very clearly. It was next to impossible to see those beautiful berries last week; this week, however, many of the leaves have fallen...