Last week I visited my daughter, her husband, and my three grandchildren in Texas. I am the kind of person (“Two” on the Enneagram) who integrates into the situation at
It’s tax season, a time which is often fraught with procrastination. Many of us have trouble with procrastination. We procrastinate when the action at hand has some expected negative impact
Last week we made a large purchase: a new piano. It’s hard to choose a piano. I found the process daunting. I have been playing for 15 years as an
My husband’s Aunt Rose became our great Buddhist teacher. Aunt Rose was 84 when I met her. She had never married, and lived in a studio apartment in New York
What does it mean to be a hidden mother/father? We can physically hide from our children by leaving, working too many hours, through illness or taking vacations without the children,
I made an appointment to have lunch with a person I didn’t know; it was a business meeting with someone who might become a new client. I did have reason
I recently read a piece by Scott Kalechstein <http://www.scottsongs.com/> from 2007, “The Journey of Relationship Going From Here to Maturity.” Let’s focus on three of his “Romantic Bubbles that must
I had lunch with a friend the other day. Her husband had died about four months ago. As we were talking, she made a suggestion to me, for how to
We had a house guest once who did not treat our house as I wanted him to. He crossed my personal boundaries with his behavior. I got mad, but said
