A Mindful Life

Have you ever heard of beatboxing? It’s making hip-hop music with your mouth. Read an article about it and then, go listen to the one I made (works best on a fast connection). You can make your own as well at Beatbox Mixer. Also check out Beatboxer Entertainment.

Tonight we crunched numbers for last year’s income and expenditures. We hadn’t done that in a long time. When both of us worked and with Husband’s extra income from his little software business, there was enough money for basics and extras. But it’s a new reality we are facing, and it was sobering. The places [...]

Tangles of Virginia creeper drape over the pool, a shimmering gasoline puddle of Japanese beetles. I am sodden in my second skin bathing suit sprawled on the ground murmuring secrets to cicadas, watching my father wash lettuce from the garden.

A bevy of experiments in recent years suggest that the conscious mind is like a monkey riding a tiger of subconscious decisions and actions in progress, frantically making up stories about being in control. As a result, physicists, neuroscientists and computer scientists have joined the heirs of Plato and Aristotle in arguing about what free [...]

I’ve moved more often in my life than I would like: 20 times since the age of 20 (several moves in one year at different points). The last move — an entire house of stuff from Texas to California — was less painful than I thought it would be, because Husband’s company paid for people [...]

My friend who is fighting breast cancer has decided to join the blogging adventure. She’s a woman of passion and has a big heart. I met her when I trained to be a grief counselor (she trained me). Then I learned she officiates weddings, baby blessings, house blessings, handfastings, and so on. She performed our [...]