I speak on behalf of young girls and women as I write these words about what I see happening in the world today. Every cell in my being objects to the condition...
As parents and even parents-to-be, we become trained to watch and wait for important milestones with our children. From the time a baby enters the world (and ev...
Why are there so many buttons? How many ways are there to hold this? Is this even pointing the right way? These were but a few of the questions that crossed my ...
There’s a saying that goes something like this: The days are long but the years are short. When it comes to parenting, truer words have never been spoken.
As...
Mindfulness for everyone
Last April, I spent an evening with Jon Kabat-Zinn, the biologist and mindfulness teacher who gave a public speech at the Facultad d...
Two universal truths: There is no time outside of this moment, and there is nothing that exists outside of awareness. Everything is timeless awareness.
The nat...
What is awareness?
Adyashanti tells us that awareness is that part of us that perceives, observes and witnesses our thoughts, feelings, behaviours and body—th...
We were known as the Sandwich Generation—taking care of teens as well as taking care of our elderly parents. Then most of us ‘Baby Boomer’ women started experiencing Empty Nest in a big way as our children went off to college or out to work or travel.
The inheritances we carry
Just like any mother, I didn't want to make any mistakes—minor or crippling. So when it came down to the big and small decisions as...
