This happens to me every year: suddenly, without my knowing quite how it happened, it’s the holiday season again. The days are getting darker, and I wonder where all the time has gone. Life passes so quickly! It’s a challenge to keep up, to pay attention and to...
What we value: wealth, writing, and more. I’m writing from Maine, and I’m very lucky to get to spend a lot of time outside in the summer. For most of my adult life, I’ve prioritized time over money, the leisure to appreciate over the ability to...
I’m delighted to publish a new essay, “The Single Most Powerful Tool for Healing: Tell the Right Stories,” on Tiny Buddha. As the title of the essay suggests, the essay is about the experience of healing from trauma and the importance of having good...
The word “rest” has a Germanic root that was a measure of distance: after traveling a certain distance, one needed to stop and rest. The very concept of rest, then, was inseparable from movement. When we depended, for travel, on our bodies, or the bodies of...
Every day, I hear from people who wish their writing were going more smoothly, or who wish they were writing and aren’t. I want to give you some tools to make the creative process unfold with more ease. Many of the tools and techniques that I’m going to be talking...
So many people want to write and so many people have this idea that if they could just write and get published they’d feel fulfilled and happy. So why is it that so many published writers are unhappy? On the one hand, there is more and more scientific evidence that...
