Nov 23, 2009 | Uncategorized
If You Knew by Ellen Bass What if you knew you’d be the last to touch someone? If you were taking tickets, for example, at the theater, tearing them, giving back the ragged stubs, you might take care to touch that palm, brush your fingertips along the life...Nov 10, 2009 | Uncategorized
This is the kind of news I love: Mickey is getting real. Yup, I read it in theNew York Times, in an article called, After Mickey’s Makeover, Less Mr. Nice Guy. Apparently, Mickey is tired of that Vaseline smile. He’s sick of having to pretend...Oct 13, 2009 | Uncategorized
I was just surfing around the Happier.com website and came across a short exercise called “Three Good Things.” The exercise invites us to think about three good things that happened today … and why. I tried to do the exercise without...Oct 9, 2009 | Celebrating in the Dark, Uncategorized
Today’s Simply Celebrate newsletter was all about waking up into anxiety and depression … and some tricks to keep Monkey Mind from pulling me into the pit. If you don’t subscribe, you can sign up here. The newsletter goes out every...Oct 6, 2009 | Uncategorized
I had a dream recently in which I am going skydiving with a friend. I am really scared that the parachute won’t work. I say to my friend, “This is a risk where I believe I might either feel amazingly wonderful and free and strong afterward … or I...Aug 19, 2009 | Uncategorized
I’ve always been a pack rat. I love stuff. I love projects and collections and hats and souvenirs and books and greeting cards and my son’s baby clothes. I started collecting/keeping things when I was a kid. It was never a problem because when I went away...