Maybe you’re the New Year’s Resolution-making kind. Maybe you give yourself the luxury of a retreat to set goals for the next year. Maybe you

With Christmas coming soon and the weather too rainy for the playground, I decided to invade Toys R Us this past weekend with my two-year-old

Once a week, I get together with writing friends for a free-write session. We give ourselves ten minutes or so on each chosen topic and

In my June 2011 e-newsletter, Balancing Tips, I ran a contest in which I solicited reader stories of how humor had helped them through a

Until this afternoon, I’d never really considered the possibility of making a quilt of life stories. But a live art performance of personal monologues by

I once opened a Chinese fortune cookie and cringed to see: “You are dependable.” “Wahoo!” I thought. “Why not ‘A great fortune will come you

This week, I was set to report a miracle of the universe. After publicly bemoaning the death of Big Oskar, my years-faithful food processor, I

If I ever write a sequel to The Dog Ate My Planner, I’ve already got the title. I’m not especially sensitive to heat, but when

Last summer, I tried meditating – the premier activity, it seems, for staying in the present rather than worrying about the future or ruminating about