Category Archives: Lifestyle

Perhaps Someday We Will Learn How to Live

Posted on 07/02/2017 by

Every morning I awaken to a country bristling with hate, intolerance, and violence.  Trump bullied his way to the presidency, exploiting public anxieties, e. g., steel belt resentment of jobs sent abroad, latent fears of a changing demographic replacing White … Continue reading →

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Is Mindfulness Warmed-over Buddhism?

Posted on 02/13/2017 by

Mindfulness meditation seems everywhere these days. Even the corporate world embraces it, e. g., Google, Facebook, EBay and Twitter. And in medical circles, it’s all the rage, particularly in psychiatry where it increasingly rivals pharmaceutical intervention as a primary therapy … Continue reading →

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Live Longer Now

Posted on 09/27/2016 by

It’s funny how your mind takes vast jumps, transcending time and space, hurling you into the past or thrusting you into the future. It’s happening to me now. I remember sitting in my sixth grade class in Florida, fascinated with … Continue reading →

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My first attempts at meditation

Posted on 02/11/2016 by

Recently I completed a 28-day online course in Zen meditation from a Buddhist source, not that I’m thinking of becoming a Buddhist, but because I’m drawn to its spirituality, virtually absent in current secular approaches such as the wildly popular … Continue reading →

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Why I Relish Going to the Gym

Posted on 01/12/2016 by

For many of us, throwing off the blankets and crawling out of bed on cold winter mornings to go to the gym seems pretty dumb. I felt that way too until my pre-diabetic diagnosis several years ago which meant that … Continue reading →

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Cultivating Stillness

Posted on 01/05/2016 by

I am full of early morning, tucked beneath my comforter, stretching my legs, my brain filling its daily bucket of anxieties sufficient for another day’s wrestlings. These several days I’ve laid siege to my citadel of habit, rising in winter’s … Continue reading →

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Don’t Be a Phoul: When Neighbors Cut Down Trees

Posted on 10/26/2015 by

My daughter has been complaining in her recent emails about a family on her street in Bellevue, WA. They’ve cut down two lovely Douglas fir trees, the kind that startle Easterners like me not used to arboreal skyscrapers, many of … Continue reading →

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Snobbery’s Menace

Posted on 02/24/2015 by

Politics can be a mean way of life, filled with scurrilous attacks on opponents, replete with prevarication, and downright lying. I stay away from it, as much as possible. Case in point, just the other day former Vermont governor and … Continue reading →

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Why I blog, though few will read

Posted on 11/14/2014 by

It’s time to write again about why I bother keeping a blog. I can’t speak for others, only for myself. What got me started this early morning was looking at a recent blog I subscribe to, and that’s very few. … Continue reading →

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Traits we should all want

Posted on 10/24/2014 by

I saw a recent piece in the Huffington Post, called “7 Habits of Natural Leaders,” and found it riveting. You don’t necessarily have to be in a leadership position, however, to benefit from making these attributes staples of your everyday … Continue reading →

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