Today I'm waiting for the outcome of a friend's surgery, and whether that's fear or anxiety, it's pretty hard to take because there's nothing I can do to influence the situation. Fear and anxiety have set in. Technically, they are different although I consider them...

It's so difficult to watch the pictures of the Amazon burning, knowing that there's so little that can be done, at least in the short run, even as some countries offer millions in aid. One way I stay sane is by sending healing thoughts to nature, just as, on so many...

  What if thinking about death could bring you more life, more beauty, and more connection to the people you love? Most of us want to avoid the topic. That's not news. Ernest Becker wrote about it years ago in his classic, The Denial of Death. I experienced how...

Today, as this post is being published, our dog, the irrepressible Jackson, is being put down. Perhaps dementia was triggering his increased aggression–we don't know. Our trainer assures us that this is the right way to go; our old dog will be fine and it's better to...

I'm feeling pretty despairing about climate change these days. The idea that people in high places dispute the science behind what's happening to our environment seems unconscionable. Barbaric. But then a lot of things seem that way to me these days.I recently...

If you want proof of the complexity of the world, come visit my garden, a mélange of good and evil, light and dark, what I want and what I don't, all asking for my care. If you have a garden, you know what I mean. Some say weeds are just plants in the wrong place. In...