How many times have we heard how important it is to learn to let go? For me that number would be umpteen million. I get it; letting go is “the right thing” to do. But how does one actually let go?

Well, lucky me, I get to practice letting go every summer Read more…

I have to confess, I don’t like having bugs in my house, especially in my kitchen. Call me old-fashioned. So when a stream of tiny black ants started wandering around on the dining room floor this summer, I did Read more…

I was in my kitchen taking a picture of something mundane, and I happened to set the camera down on a table while it was still turned on. When I went to pick it up, this image appeared on the screen, catching my eye and my attention. Just pausing to notice in that split second allowed me to soak up a fun moment, when life was indeed a “festival”,  right where I was. And then I ate one of the perfectly ripe nectarines out of the case and let the festival continue.

Starting a blog has seemed absolutely monumental to me. I’ve fretted, resisted, struggled, anguished, whined, pouted, procrastinated, ranted, simpered and a whole lot of other tactics that got me nowhere except in a bad mood. Then, one day, I luckily remembered something that had inspired me over five years ago, when I was about to begin a solo walking pilgrimage of 50 days and over 800 miles on the Camino de Santiago in Spain. Back then I’d come across a simple Chinese proverb: Read more…