Did you ever see the movie Benny and Joon?  There’s a scene where Joon gets totally overwhelmed by a chaotic situation, and she cowers on the ground, hands over her ears, wailing, “Too much, too loud, too much, too loud!” I feel like that sometimes.  I bet you do too. Sometimes it’s because some sort […]

You’re writing a book, right?  Of course you are.    Even if you have no interest in getting published, or getting on a bestseller list, or other trivial details, we’re all telling ourselves stories all the time.  We live our lives as a series of tales that make us laugh, or stand tall, or sigh.  […]

A secret mystic is: intelligent skeptical grounded savvy wise and knows in her bones that there is magic lying dormant in her.  She knows that there is more to this world than we can see with our eyes or explain with our logic.  She knows that it’s time to harness her intuition, spidey senses, sensitivity, […]

I’ve been thinking about lighthouses. Steve Jobs was one of the bright lights in my cosmos–a pioneer who loved beauty, someone who wanted the quantum leaps in technology to nourish our intuition and aesthetic sense.  (If you think he was a horrible elitist snob, that’s okay, you can keep reading anyway.) It’s easy to look […]

The other day I looked around at my apartment and froze.  I literally stopped walking mid-stride, like someone in a movie.  Then I folded my arms, rested my chin in my hand, and said, “Hmmmm.” I was not practicing for my role in a local production of Clichéd Things Actors Do. Nope, this was just me in my home, […]