I've spent a fair bit of time on long airplane flights lately, so I allow myself a nice juicy novel. Dan Brown, of The Da Vinci Code fame, has a new one out. It's pretty good as a novel, but it also sneaks up on you with interesting takes on the...
I'm a bit of a latecomer to Mel Robbins, and not everything hits with me, but there is a back episode #296 that talks about body image issues in a way I have never considered before. Think about this - humans are not engineered to see ourselves as...
Did you know it is actually still possibly to get a magazine without ads? An honest to God, really high quality magazine. This one is the brainchild and love offering of Janine Vangool, a Canadian writer and publisher. Each themed issue features...
This is a book I've had for a long time. I bought it because I have met the author, Tejpal, several times when I've been lucky enough to spend some time at the Miraval Resort in Tucson. You know how you buy a book because you like the author, but...
I can't lie, I've mostly been reading what I call “airport fiction” lately - those series of novels that are the literary equivalent of Law and Order or CSI. But I did make time for this book - Whole Brain Thinking by Jill Bolte Taylor. You may...
In 2013 a man named Dan Pallotta gave a TED talk that went viral. He made a passionate case for changing the way we evaluate charities, that by focusing on how little they spend instead of how much impact they deliver. Whether it changes your mind...
Seems like a good time to pull these old favorites off the bookshelf. The author is John O'Donohue, onetime priest, poet, philosopher who has now left us. His words gentle me down, his poems/prayers require no specific faith, only a desire to...
We went nomading again to Palm Springs for a few weeks, and that seems to now include a ritual photo of one of my favorite reading nooks. This time I was reading Rick Rubin’s The Creative Act. One of my favorite lines: “Discipline and...
The title of this post is taken from Anne Lamott’s book of the same name. I’ve pretty much separated my meditation practice from any specific religious practice. Having said that, sometimes when I am sitting with my thoughts I find myself talking...