Cloudy, cold Saturday. And I made the mistake of reading some seriously doom-gloom-we’re-all-toast-especially-if-you’re-old-in-America articles first thing this morning. “Doomscrolling” really is a thing, I think… In this reality moment: one reading today, prep for next Tuesday’s Soul Plan reading, some cooking, some grocery shopping. Time on the treadmill, time with the stretching and balancing exercises.

It is just before dawn. You stand outside, your eyes closed, just breathing in the spring air. Birdsong is clear, a happy cacophony of trills and warbles, as the birds call out for mates, and greet the sun that rises earlier each day.

Sometimes people have birthdays but dislike any fuss or notice. Yet people who love them still feel they must do SOMETHING. At the same time, there isn’t anything less “birthday giving” than insisting that someone accept a present or a party they truly don’t want. Let me suggest an alternative……

Do you ever wonder what people will write about you after you’re gone? (Not that I have any frisson of leaving any time soon, let me assure you.) Went down the rabbit hole at Find a Grave .com today, and looked back at about three to four generations of my…

Sometimes change comes in odd packages. If there is something people always notice about you — a habit, a train of thought, a way of looking at things, a behavior — that you yourself can’t stand or don’t like dealing with? …

Look, I’ll be honest. For decades — DECADES, since I was a wee thing — I have wrestled with depression, fear-of-future and guilt-of-past. I’ve done my best not to let it stop me, but it’s been a hell of a lot of hard work. At the same time, it has…

Ah, weddings. Days of both joy and trauma, fear and certainty, family and friends getting together to celebrate this most seminal of days. They say planning a wedding is like planning the takeover of a small country…and I’d believe it. …

Everywhere on my website is what I call my “Sentence of Passion”: Cross the bridge from fear to fearlessness and fly! …

I had a very bad habit for years, and it took real work to detangle it from my soul. I used to blame myself for absolutely everything that went wrong around me.