Everything I Touch Becomes Part of Me
Meet Betty. Betty is my sourdough starter. What’s unusual about Betty is not that I’ve given a name to a mere concoction of flour and...
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- Aug 26, 2021
“But I don’t really write, I just journal”
Can I call myself a writer if all I do is “journalling”? Or morning pages? Writing in a writing class but not on my own? YES. I say yes,...
- Mar 31, 2021
Sanctifying the Ordinary
Sanctification: making sacred. Sacred is an anagram for scared. We are often scared of the sacred. We are scared because we have not been...
- Jun 14, 2018
Take Your Body To Heart
It was a revelation of epic proportions when my first meditation instructor said to me, the body feels before you put words to it. I...
- May 4, 2018
Writing With Beginner’s Mind: Reposted
Who knew a four-day, 2500-kilometre solo drive in the rain, preceded and followed by intense moving activities, could be so exhausting?...
- Feb 15, 2018
Home Is Where The Heart Is
[Continued from last week’s post] Last week I wrote that Jack and I have figured out how to make ourselves at home in many different...
- Feb 9, 2018
There’s No Place Like Home
On my very first trip to British Columbia, I stopped off in Vancouver to change planes for my flight to Victoria. I looked out the window...
- Jan 5, 2018
A Craving Is Just A Thought
Everyone’s addicted to something, says my friend D. And I have to agree with her. Why am I thinking about addiction today? Because I read...
- Dec 28, 2017
Kindness Practices To Get Things Done
I’ve struggled my entire adult life to Get Things Done. It’s not that I’m ever really idle, not really. Even when it looks like I’m doing...
- Nov 30, 2017
How I Do Self-Compassion
To pick up where we left off last week: For me, the real deal about being kind to myself is all about being in touch with my own true...
- Nov 23, 2017
Beyond the Bubble Bath
“To thine own self be kind.” I mean REALLY TRULY kind. I mean radical kindness, real, radical self-compassion. The kind of kindness that...
- Nov 17, 2017
On Becoming a “Writer”
When people ask me what I’m up to these days, I get all tongue tied and fumbly. I hem and haw about sort of being more or less kind of...
- Nov 9, 2017
In response to “Negative Emotions Are Key to Well-Being”
I’m doing something a little different today to honour my (recent) commitment to post on Thursdays: reposting something I posted on...
- Oct 26, 2017
The Trouble with Silence
The trouble with silence is that it’s so hard to find. And because it’s so hard to find, we’re so not used to it. It makes us...
- Jun 2, 2017
In My Bones
Surrounded by emptiness, always, surrounded, bounded, filled with emptiness. I used to feel empty all the time. So I filled up with booze...
- Apr 16, 2017
Staying in touch – why is it so hard?
I know I keep saying this, but this time – this time – will be different. I’ll do better at staying in touch. I will. I will. But the...
- Apr 2, 2017
Don’t ask what you can do
Don’t ask what you can do. They can’t tell you, because they don’t know. Don’t say, if there’s anything you need, just let me know. They...
- Nov 6, 2016
Why Do We Create?
In the Dordogne Valley near the Bordeaux region of France there’s a cave* with a magnificent 13-thousand-year-old painting of a horse on...
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