Writing, living, and healing in the PNW
It can happen to the happiest among us. And it can happen for any number of reasons. You didn’t get enough sleep. You haven’t gotten enough sleep in a week, a month, a year! Your kid is sick. You started a new job and you’re feeling overwhelmed. You’re PMSing. Anything can turn a potentially good…
I have always been an advocate of free range parenting, the parent who provides very wide boundaries within which children are free to roam about and explore. And for the most part, for six years, I have been a free range parent. Sure, I hovered a lot when Celaya was very small. It took me…
My student walked down the hallway of the tutoring center with me tonight, my last student of the evening, a regular of mine. He sat down at my table across from me, and we begin discussing his upcoming final essay for his Freshman English course at the local community college. “Tragedy of the Commons,” he…
We learn what we want to learn. Period. Children can be in school, behind reading level for years, and suddenly, like magic, they catch up. Or they never do. And you know what it depends on? Whether the kid wants to learn to read or not. My very first experience with trying to force my…
I don’t know what exactly called me to yoga this time around. I had tried yoga before. A really good friend of mine has done yoga for years. I have seen the transformation in her, especially as a fellow mother of three who has undergone three cesarean section operations. I have seen her stomach flatten…
A couple of weeks ago I told Carlos I’m interested in living a more mobile life. I have been looking into the city of Tulum, Mexico, and almost everyone knows I love San Clemente and the lifestyle here where we are currently vacationing and where we spend at least a week each year. One of…
Figuring out how to be happy can be difficult; it can feel pointless on bad days; it can feel impossible after a long stretch of sadness or resentment. It also doesn’t help that the world is either bombarding us with “don’t worry! be happy!” exhortations or shaming us for trying to be happy: “no one…
I recently read an article posted on Facebook by a friend and fellow Science of the Mind believer about the “dark side of ‘positive thinking.” The article is about this Brazilian Shaman, who also happens to be a motivational coach to corporate execs, who makes a case that positive thinking, or the Law of Attraction,…
Enlightenment: to understand. To see things for what they are. To see the path unfolding. All of this just means that you are living the life of your dreams, whatever those dreams may be. To hold the key to enlightenment is to be living that life. A fundamental belief I hold that allows me to…
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