When I first moved into my 150 year old house almost eight years ago, I immediately began the process of cleaning up and updating the...

I have always had a precarious relationship with sleep. The bliss of restful sleep has eluded me since I broke a dependency on a life...

This post originally appeared at Huffington Post on 5/26/15. I feel most comfortable in a classroom. Whether I am the instructor or...

OK, so it wasn’t the first time I had ever seen Andre Watts. Nor was it the first time I ever saw him at New Jersey Performing Arts...

The concepts of interconnectedness and self-sufficiency may, at first, seem incompatible. Interconnectedness implies that all living...

Inauthenticity is a faint, futile fugue that robs life of its mystery and meaning. Yet, social survival compels us to hide, to shift, and...

We live in a world full of injustice and despair. I suspect that, at least in part, your anger has led you to conceptualize and co-create...

Last summer, when listening to various tracks on my MP3 player while on a road trip, my mother mentioned that she loved Joan Osborne’s...

I sometimes think that I was happier when I was depressed. I recently found a journal from 2006 and 2008, with an almost two-year gap...

Writing is a solitary enterprise and that, overall, suits me just fine. After a day at work surrounded by other people, love them though...

I yearn to create writing that is imaginative, playful, honest, and luscious — and to do so on a consistent basis. Writing is not only an...

A few months ago, a friend and I decided that we would do 40 extraordinary things to celebrate our 40th birthdays. Mine is coming up in a...

I love to read. An early precocious reader, I worked my way through chapter books in kindergarten and by the end of elementary school,...

Diets suck…the life out of our days, the days out of our years. Anything that is restrictive in such a way can only have short-lived,...

A few years ago, when visiting a major museum in the Mid-Atlantic area which shall remain unnamed, I was absolutely mortified when an...

There is an Iroquois doctrine which states that people ought to take into consideration the potential impact that their actions could...

When driving home from work one evening, I saw a beautiful rainbow stretch across the sky. As I approached the stop light which granted...

People have been seizing the day since Horace offered this delicious phrase to the world in 23 BCE. Yet over time, we intuitively fall...

I recently met someone whose perception of the proper intersection of authenticity and propriety was skewed slightly differently than...