Navigating Chaos with Grace & Ease

My dear friend, the wise and beautiful Rev. Cynthia James, sent out a blog the other day filled with important and potent advice on dealing with the times we are in. She has graciously given me permission to share this with you: These last few months have been quite a ride. A pandemic, social unrest, […]

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Watching Barbra Streisand on Oprah Changed My Love Life

One evening in November 1996, I turned on my VHS (remember that?) to watch a taped episode of The Oprah Show. Her special guest was Barbra Streisand who was glowing and giddy as she discussed her tall, dark and handsome fiancé, actor James Brolin. Back then, I lived in Beverly Hills, and the dish around […]

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Is the Universe Friendly?

You probably already know that Albert Einstein, who won a Nobel Prize for Physics, and was famous for his theory of relativity, which revolutionized our understanding of space, time, gravity, and the Universe, was a genius. But did you also know he was quite the philosopher? Einstein wrote that the most important question facing humanity […]

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Being With What Is

We are now a full six months into living with the Corona pandemic. For me, and most everyone I know, it’s been a very bumpy ride. It’s kind of like white-water river rafting. Periods of smooth tranquil waters followed by occasional terrifying rapids where I’m holding on tight, hoping not to capsize. There’s no map. […]

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Sitting Shiva for America

I woke up this morning feeling a sense of great loss, loss for so many things…the loss of civility in our country, the loss of life from Covid, and cancer, and guns, and innocent black men and women being killed, innocent protesters being gunned down, the violence in our streets. The seemingly impossible divide between […]

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Relationship Role Modeling from the Obamas

Sixteen years ago Barack and Michelle Obama’s marriage was about to crumble. Michelle told her mother she wasn’t sure their marriage would survive. Barack told his grandmother that Michelle’s constant nagging was driving him crazy. They were drowning in debt from the Ivy League law school loans. Michelle was the major breadwinner with her high […]

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The Alchemy of Tragedy

I wasn’t born an optimist. In fact… quite the opposite. I was a moody, sullen, often seriously depressed child and young adult. One night, at age 26, I decided that I was going to find the secret of happiness. I was at a party in Coconut Grove, Florida, at the waterfront home of a millionaire, […]

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26 pounds, a muffin top, and true happiness…

Thirty-six years ago I was obsessed with the ambition to attain physical perfection. I had this idea that if I could weigh a certain amount, have my measurements be an exact number, have my hair the best length and all ten of fingernails “long” at the same time, I would be perfect and with that […]

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Making Room For Surprises & Miracles

There once was a woman who saw on TV that her neighborhood was about to be flooded and the officials said everyone should evacuate. She believed that God would save her, and she ignored the warning. Then a city worker knocked on her door and told her to leave for higher ground and she said […]

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Is Becoming An Author on Your Wish List?

I’ve written eleven non-fiction books over the past thirty years and along the way I made just about every mistake an author can make. Writing, publishing, and marketing a book is a very counter-intuitive process, and unless you seek out expert advice, it’s likely you will make a lot of mistakes as well. That’s why […]

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