You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know
Here I am, merrily tripping along on the coattails of 36 years of intense introspection, thinking I know where all the buttons and dead bodies lie. Writing a definitive text about the ego, (and having a great agent and publisher to go with it) everything in my life...
Out on the Edge
So, I’m driving towards Phoenix. It’s late and instead of messing around with Airbnb I did the old-fashioned thing and stopped at a motel for the night. Perhaps that’s what triggered the sense of insecurity and isolation this morning. Or maybe it was the first email I...
Going nowhere
Finishing up my yoga and meditation this morning I couldn’t help noticing how utterly present I was. No thinking. No direction. No needs. No “I better get going on that book or blog or email.” No need to run to the bathroom or the kitchen or the grocery store....
A radical new way of being
For the longest time, I thought “being” meant hanging out in a meditative-like state of quiet bliss—you know— totally calm and “present.” Compared to the frantic state of modern civilization and much of my life, “being” seemed like a haven of refuge. “I’m just going...
Life always delivers
Waking up to blue skies the other morning, I sat on the deck nursing my coffee, totally aware that my computer wasn't calling to me. My inner child, however, was making a huge racket. The beach! The beach! Let’s go to the beach! I didn't even try to resist the...
I’ll never do better than this
Ever had that thought? I can’t leave my __________ (lover, husband, wife, job, school, home … fill in the blank). I might never find one as good. The other day I was thinking about moving to a new place (California!) and caught myself driving to town, soaking up the...
Cutting Loose
When was the last time you really let it rip? Shattered the BS about “Children should be seen and not heard” – annihilated all memory of being told “Be Quiet!” you’re “too loud” or “Stop being obnoxious” or “You’re not being appropriate” etc etc and just let it all...
Missed Flight
Back in my TV days living as an adrenalin junkie, I loved seeing how close I could cut my arrival times at the airport. Heart-bursting races to the gate were a bizarre badge of honor signifying my cavalier attitude towards jet travel. Collapsing in my seat, wiping the...
Tug O’ War
You want to fly! But part of you holds back. You're jazzed about creating a fantastic life! And part of you sits in the corner, sucking your thumb in self-doubt. Sound familiar? I used to think this was the inevitable war playing out between my Higher and lower selves...
Standing naked
This whole time back from my seven-week, drop-everything-that-doesn't-work-or-feel-good journey through CA/AZ/NM I've been housesitting at a friend's place in Olympia. And I’ve been filled with ??? Where to next? What next? Wanting ANSWERS!!!!! Like NOW!!!!! And yet...