Things aren’t normal. They haven’t been for a while and may not be for a long time. Normal may become something new completely. So how do you move forward? What guides you? Whether in the middle of flux and a world in upheaval or in times when the world itself seems...
Yesterday was my beautiful daughter’s birthday, and it was also the first day of mandatory lock down for the Bay Area. We are to stay in our homes except for a few exceptions (to buy food for example). My older son and his girlfriend arrived a few days ago for...
Do you ever create a plan, or set intentions or make resolutions and then nothing happens? You find all sorts of tasks to do instead of what you committed to, or you find excuses to start tomorrow. That’s happened to me more often than I want to admit. And when...
September is a time for fresh starts. Whether you have kids going back to school or teach or are starting a program yourself, most of us have September ingrained as a time when something new starts. We’re moving out of the summer months—summer weather, summer...
I haven’t always loved my life. Even now, when I do love it, when there is so much that lights me up—morning walks on the beach and the endless energy of Murphy when I toss a ball, having my daughter here in Wellfleet with me this summer, catching up with old friends...