Happy Summer, friends! As threatened, I’m continuing my occasional series on adult friendships. I forget where I heard these three essential friendship elements: frequency, proximity, and vulnerability. But I’ve been [...]
I had a delightful phone call with my friend Katie this week, and we found ourselves returning to a favorite subject—making and keeping friends. I realized again how much I [...]
Guess what? I’m going to talk about graduation again! We had my daughter’s graduation open house last weekend. It poured rain, we all crowded around the kitchen island, and I [...]
I’m inspired by Bill Gates’ announcement that his foundation will shut its doors in 20 years. He says, “There are too many urgent problems to solve for me to hold [...]
My daughter graduates from high school in two weeks, and we take her to college in a couple months. Having gone through this once with my son, I thought I [...]
I’m on a long-awaited pilgrimage to Provincetown, Massachusetts this week. My aunt has been visiting, working, or seasonally living here for 50 years, and for the last decade has been [...]
One of my spiritual teachers recently said, “Disappointment is the chariot of the dharma.” Mic drop! I understand this to mean we learn the most when we learn to be [...]
It’s hard to know what to write these days. I’m saddened and infuriated by the detention of local laborers in the last week, some of whom were the parents of [...]
I took a photo of a painting I saw last week that said, “Life is a full-time job.” Amen to that! Lately, it has taken most of my energy just [...]
I wrote last week about feeling afraid and got responses from several of you, thanking me for acknowledging and even welcoming fear instead of spouting platitudes about how we should [...]