I remember one of the first times I heard Thich Nhat Hanh speak. He shared thoughts about his work and life during the Vietnam War.
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For some reason, I get a lot of orchids as gifts. I find orchid blooms to be delicately beautiful and they remind me of Plum Village, where the altars are always filled with blooming orchids.
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I used to feel like I didn't fit in. As a baby, I had a lazy eye, and was wearing eye patches and glasses by the time I was two years old.
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A few years ago, I got some great advice from the Buddhist nun, Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo.
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June 2 is World Eating Disorders Day, a day meant to provide awareness of the challenges that cause so much suffering and shame for those who are afflicted.
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Last week, as I was diligently writing a review on Goodreads for a friend's new book, I decided to see whether my book (Things I Did When I Was Hangry) had any new reviews.
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Since my book about mindful cooking and eating came out in September, I have been speaking and teaching more about the practice of mindful eating, and how to work with habits that cause us to suffer.
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I had the great fortune of attending a week-long gathering in the Black Hills of South Dakota last month in which more than 100 Buddhist practitioners camped together and listened to the voices of native people share about their history and their lives.
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Yesterday I got an email from my husband with the subject, "Crazy Story!" Intrigued, I followed the link to a long article entitled, "The Strange and Curious Tale of the Last True Hermit."
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I was recently at a playground with my five-year-old niece Evie. It was a beautiful spring day, and Evie hopped onto a teeter-totter with another little girl about the same age.
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I had a conversation with friends recently about our childhoods and especially our mothers. Both of the women I was talking to had serious difficulties with their moms, and each expressed the feeling that they thought that their mother didn't really like them much.
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As I was finishing a meeting downtown one morning, I checked the DC NextBus iphone app and saw that a bus was arriving at my stop in just seven minutes.
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This morning, like most mornings, my husband’s iphone alarm went off at 4:00 am. He promptly turned it off. Around 5:00 am, our sunrise clock began to glow, but neither one of us noticed.
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While I was out walking the dogs in the cold this morning, I noticed all of the empty flowerbeds in my neighbors' front yards.
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Last week I had an argument with my partner, to whom I've been married for 26 years. I was showing him around my new office space, and he made a joke about it.
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