I’m sitting on my pink couch, gray blanket covering outstretched legs, purring gray and white cat curled on top of my feet, watching...

Open any published book to the Acknowledgements page. Notice how many people are listed there and what the author is thanking them for....

I love early mornings. I love that luminous, numinous moment every day, when everything is fresh, crisp, untainted. It's the perfect time...

We don’t meditate to become expert meditators, right? At least in the meditation practices I follow, we do eventually get up off the...

Inspiration is a fleeting, elusive thing. Sometimes you’ll think you have something, but then suddenly the Muse goes silent, disappearing...

Some of my best ideas come to me in the shower. I probably wrote half my master’s thesis under running water. Sometimes I’m inspired by...

When I was 22, I promised myself I’d live with no regrets. This seemed like a good idea at the time—a healthy way to view life as a...

— quoted from calligraphy by Thich Nhat Hanh Today is the 30th anniversary of my father’s death. Today I remember him. Every day for 30...

The best way I know of to bring light to the shadows of my mind is by writing down the shadows and letting them breathe, giving them space.

As I sail through one green light after another on my way to an appointment, I think of that magical day last summer, out on the lake by...