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My Own Best Teacher

,9:26 pm

I’ve been restless lately, feeling stuck and dissatisfied, treading, yet again, on paths of depression worn so well in my mind that they’re seemingly permanent. My determination to re-route these paths, though – to create beautiful new neural pathways as my friend Sue puts it – is just as persistent. So yesterday, in an attempt […]

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Are You a Buddhist? Lawyers, Labels, Rituals and Me

,10:48 pm

  I recently spoke at a business conference for entrepreneurs about how to choose a business name. When I finished my short presentation, I put my hands together at my chest in prayer and bowed slightly to the audience. I didn’t plan to do this. The gesture was automatic, unconscious, surprising even me. Perhaps it […]

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Taking the Edge off Work

,9:43 pm

In my last post, I promised to get rid of 127 things. And they are gone! Well, 122 are gone. The remaining few are special deliveries yet to be made. And, you’ll be happy to know, I resisted the urge to buy more books with the credit I earned at the used book store. That’s no […]

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Anniversary

,5:41 pm

I had another post planned, a light and funny piece. Today, though, I’m not feeling light or funny. Maybe that’s because it is November. Grey, slushy, damp November.  Maybe it is the date, a date inscribed with such fury in my journal that I have to look away from the pages, close the cover and […]

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Guilty as Charged: I’m an UDDer

,9:04 pm

  Not much points up spousal differences like clothing choices in the face of lousy weather. Today, in the face of high winds, chill air and scattered showers, I gather heavy weather gear for the morning stroll with my husband: fleece-lined jeans that make my legs look like stovepipes, a wool sweater and a thick, […]

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The Field Between

,10:16 pm

  Out beyond ideas of right doing and wrong doing, there is a field: I’ll meet you there.  It sounds so easy, doesn’t it? So effortless. The answer to everything from spats with spouses to world peace, except for this one small detail: it takes  years of mistakes to learn how to do it. Like […]

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Driving Lessons

,7:02 pm

Not much points up how different my husband and I are than the way we approach teaching our kids a new skill. Take driving lessons for example. My older daughter has just turned sixteen. She is, in many ways, her mother’s daughter, that is, methodical, studious, careful.  Neither of us can look at anything in […]

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Come With Me. Let’s Escape.

,10:34 pm

  The phone rings. “Come with me to Hatteras,” my husband says when I answer. “Come stay for two or three days. Pack your bathing suit.” He sounds a little out of breath. I can hear the muffled sounds of a busy airport in the background, the tinny voice of the public address system, the […]

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