Slow Marriage
Slow marriage doesn’t mean it takes you three weeks to pick up your dirty socks from the bathroom floor. It means taking time to be together, even when finances are tight. My husband and I haven’t been on a date in a while. My gym […]
Slow marriage doesn’t mean it takes you three weeks to pick up your dirty socks from the bathroom floor. It means taking time to be together, even when finances are tight. My husband and I haven’t been on a date in a while. My gym […]
Standing at JFK airport with a few hours left before boarding, I browsed the newsstand for a good read. Eckhardt Tolle’s A New Earth stood out right away. Although I had read The Power of Now years ago, I had felt no urge to read […]
Peter Pamela Rose and I ‘met’ online a while back. She is a Master Life and Career Coach, a so-called ‘Chiropractor of the Mind’. Below she offers her insights about awareness, acceptance and action. Enjoy! “Oh, those three little powerful words have helped me in […]
A New York publicist recently asked me how she might bring more ‘slow’ to her day. With a busy firm and a client list the length of her arm, she is often overwhelmed by the rigors of her workday. As with other people I have […]
Last week in New York City, I sat down with Distracted author Maggie Jackson for a rare face-to-face interview. It was rare because most of the interviews I conduct are through the digital medium, either via phone, Skype or email. We enjoyed a cup of chamomille […]
I have been to New York City at least five times in as many years. Something has changed in the City. It is softer, kinder, more humane. After spending five days there, I experienced nothing but kindness wherever I went. Someone once told me you […]
Safely esconced in the confines of my tiny New York hotel room, I am typing this in rhythm with the traffic nine stories below. I can see why New Yorkers have a hard time slowing down. It is natural for human beings to adapt to […]
Nature is balm for the soul. Whenever I feel stressed, I step outside my office and into my garden to dig around in the dirt for a few minutes. Studying the landscape, I inevitably regain a sense of balance and beauty about my surroundings. Internally, […]
Seth Godin recently talked about the pending death of all newspapers. Since I admire his thinking, this has gotten me a little worried. There’s nothing more enjoyable than reading the paper with a steaming cup of coffee in the sunshine on a Sunday afternoon. It […]
Lauree Ostrofsky wrote a brilliant post about negative space. The Japanese call it ‘ma’, the space between things. She asks what one would do if we planned the things between activities. What would our day look like if we only planned the down time instead […]