A month ago, after I departed from South Bend, Indiana on a 13-hour car ride filled with the sounds of...
Life often presents us with challenges that demand a profound level of acceptance—the kind that requires us to navigate through...
My social media channels were recently peppered with a “new” perspective on other people’s behaviour called the “Let Them Theory.”...
Many years ago, I interviewed a professor of Linguistics from a major university. At the time, I was annoyed that...
Someone, perhaps a therapist I sat with along the way, pointed out how often I used the word “should.” I...
Our meditation practice is personal and private. It is also something that can open us up to connect with every...
A New Year’s Resolution of “Shoulds” and “Shouldn’ts” I live with my “should”I ought to be slim and healthyFlexible and...
What if we are being called to build a house for our brothers and sisters, just as Joseph may have...
Thich Nhat Hanh, the noted Buddhist monk and writer, has written a collection of poems entitled Call Me By My...
One day, sooner or later, we are all going to die. Like every human being, as the inevitability of our...
Ms. Tavares smiled at me today. As I was walking past her after picking up my kids from their class,...
Dealing with depression from a young age has left me with a lot of baggage to unpack and a lot...
I scroll through an old high school classmate’s Instagram feed and feel slightly jealous. Jealous because I’ve never had the...
“Where are you from?” In a simple world, I would answer that I’m from Canada. If I gave that answer,...
The online reviews for this motel and the part of the city it’s in are downright scary. But it’s the...
Veterans Day is not just a day to have fun and show off my rare vintage headgear given to me...
In the minute it takes to read the first few lines of this article, 20 people from across the planet...
My best friend and I are swimming in my pool. She’s in my second-grade class and happens to live next...
For about 20 years, I’ve been involved in assessing and diagnosing hundreds of children and adults with autism and Asperger’s...
It had been two years since I’d made the accidental discovery. My false hope of reconciliation was like a wino...
Life is unconditional acceptance A n alignment with the present moment allows us to feel the neutrality of stillness, the...
“The artist is a seer, a becomer,” wrote the philosopher Gilles Deleuze and the psychiatrist Félix Guattari in their 1996...
As we move through life, one of the things we can all count on is the experience of pain. Whether...
Life is all about being with “what is” Your present-moment experience is all there is. It’s all you have; it’s...
