The Birthday Post: Taking Stock

In one of those perfect confluences of circumstances, my 43rd birthday today falls on a “Life” day. The day itself doesn’t have much significance — I’m spending most of the day working, and teaching a workshop in Baltimore this evening — I had mentioned to a friend that…

Focused Self-Love

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Today’s thought on love is pretty simple and straightforward: are you lovin’ yourself right?

Are You Ready for Love?

One of the prime lessons of my work teaching about relationships is to be authentic. The idea that you will find your sustaining love when you dress differently, talk differently, act differently, and do different things in places you really don’t enjoy is ludicrous. I’m all for…

Take 15: Peace (part 1 of 3)

“I’m going to take fifteen minutes for peace.”

That’s what she said as she stopped pacing back and forth in the living room. She was having a stressful day, the kind that most freelancers both long for and dread: multiple client meetings, collaborative…

Drinking in the Silence

I’ve been very fortunate in receiving a lot of personal feedback in the form of emails, private messages, and even one-on-one “attaboys” from readers. Thank you, Diana, Heather, Percy, TJ, and Rita! Keep those cards & letters comin’!

Wise Consistency

Happy Monday from a bus somewhere between New York City and Washington, DC. I woke up in Providence, Rhode Island, after a weekend at a conference where I taught three classes, served as a speaker on a panel, entertained a packed room as part of an improv troupe, and spontaneously did a performance…

A Life Free

There is an interesting thread of thoughts about the concept of “freedom” going on throughout the self-reliance and unconventional life blogosphere (what, you didn’t know there was such a thing? Well, I just said so, on the internet, so it must be true).

Financial Huggery

It makes perfect sense that I would be writing about hugs on “Love” day. After all, it’s a well known fact that hugs increase…