Earlier this week I decided to write an oped for The Guardian about a phenomenon plaguing many of us – how people we know, mostly
I was on a dating site recently. A guy who looked like Jesus (should Jesus exist today as a Swedish supermodel with a man-bun and
I caught up with Danielle LaPorte the other day. I wanted to ask her a bit about anxiety. She gets it. She writes about it. I’ve followed
New York Times columnist Frank Bruni does his summer holidays like my family and I: all together, in a beach house, for an extended period.
Decisions are hard. I struggle with them. So these words from writer and feminist Rita Mae Brown are sweet salve… “A peacefulness follows any decision, even
On my recent post in which I announced I was off on a break (to India) to try the art of doing nothing, reader Leonie shared
There’s an indigenous practice called dadirri for healing trauma. It also brings wisdom and wholeness. Dadirri means inner, deep listening and quiet, still awareness. It’s
When I was 21 I got a scholarship to study philosophy at the University of California, Santa Cruz. I arrived with my mountain bike and a passion
In 1964, Yoko Ono published a collation of art “pieces’ in a book called Grapefruit. One such moment in artistic whimsy was the Mirror Piece.
On my last day in Ikaria Thea took me aside in her kitchen as I was making my morning mountain tea in a little tin