Don’t be a plantar fasciitis wimp!

February 23, 2016
Some 10 years ago I spent the better part of a day walking around Vienna--maybe a total of 10 miles. That's Vienna, Austria, so you can understand why I was happy to...

It’s the Afterlife calling…

February 22, 2016
I don't climb mountains or swim with the sharks. No, my risk-taking is living with an open heart and an open mind. It's amazing what can  happen if you live as though...

The cost of love

February 21, 2016

Today’s inspiration

February 20, 2016

Lost places of our past

February 19, 2016
On the phone with one of our nephews the other day I was hit hard by hiraeth, a form of homesickness that I couldn't put words to until I ran into this word. Hiraeth....

Back in the day

February 18, 2016
The other night a friend's teenage daughter showed me a photo of her senior prom dress. You know, what we used to call "gowns."  It was beautiful, bare midriff and...

What is a real friend?

February 17, 2016
Look around.  Are you surrounded by people who are real friends? "Of course," some might respond. But others might use the question as an exercise to evaluate the...

What matters to us

February 16, 2016
This is not the traditional way of defining what matters or keeping score, but as usual, the Buddha breaks it down brilliantly to the core meaning of life.  If the...

What we don’t know

February 15, 2016
We don't know what we don't know.  I love this thought, because for me it sums up the question of whether or not there is an afterlife, a place we go to when we no...

It’s like we never said goodbye

February 14, 2016
We were so young! I wasn't yet 21, he was just 24, and there we were, walking down an aisle to a happy-ever-after life.  We were impossibly young; what did we know?...

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