Well...I did it. I made the decision and took the leap. I gave my official notice and am taking a Leave of Absence from teaching next year. I have a…

What needs to be spoken these days is so personal, so deep inside that I can only whisper the words to the wind. Thoughts and feelings coming from a place…

I'm so lost these days and then I go out skiing in the woods and everything feels right and good. I'm breathing and smiling, noticing beauty and feeling alive. And…

noun : the state of being grateful For my children, my family, my partner For a job and a salary For my warm house My dog, warm baths, sunrises and…

Sometimes it feels like I'm the only unhappy person. I know that's completely absurd. Obviously so many people are struggling and have it so much worse than I do. But…

The very concept of surrendering involves giving something up...power, control. I got tossed around the other day and didn't come out the other side doing too well. The experience lingered…

What a scary thing to unpack the metaphorical backpack. For so long I excelled at filling it up. Collecting all the trauma of my life, the things I never truly…

"You will never hear the silence without the noise." In looking for lessons on gratitude for my students, I came across this quote from a beautiful short film, called Gift.…

"It is from this place in our heart cavewhere we are nowWe watch the entire dramathat is our livesWe watch the illusionwithunbearable compassion"-Ram Dass The illusion...it insists that we take…

Maybe it's the hardest thing. Rising up after we fall. Having the grit, the raw faith that there's something worth getting up off our asses for, again and again. In…