When I wake up in the morning, I walk out onto my balcony and survey the scene around my home. It’s usually still quite dark out, but the little lamps that dot the bike path on Santa Monica and Venice Beach are still lit and to the left of my…
Read MoreWhen I became an adult, My parents told me to spread my wings and fly. They encouraged me to discover new places and new people. They waved me off at airports, And read my worldly updates, sent from tiny…
Read More2025 has already been one hell of a year. If I were currently enrolled in the School of Life, my courses would be called things like: ‘Navigating Big Grief’, ‘Reinventing Yourself…Again 101’, ‘How to Cut the BS and Get Unstuck’, and…
Read MoreAs we step into the heart chakra portion of our journey, I begin to consider balance in more ways than one. We just got out of the fires of the solar plexus and are…
Read MoreNow, this might not seem like a huge deal to anybody reading this, but it is to me. I used to be a massive reader. I devoured books when I was younger. I worked my way through the entire fiction section of our public library. I carted books…
Read MoreSport and movement have always been a really big part of my life. My teen years were spent on fields and courts - chasing, diving and running around after balls of various shapes and sizes. I bounced back from ankle sprains and jammed fingers…
Read MoreThe third chakra is the solar plexus and its element is fire. It is the house of the ego and what ‘I’ would call ‘me’ and ‘you’ would call ‘you.’ After finding food and shelter in the root chakra, and the ability to move and reproduce in the sacral chakra, we…
Read MoreLately I’ve been reading a lot of Alan Watts. In one of his journal entries he describes something he calls the paradox of happiness or the backwards law. Happiness is something that we all would like to have. Ask a little kid what he wants to be…
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