By becoming present and receptive to the subtle and small, life becomes a backroad exploration with multiple stops to take in the sights.

A simple practice to create greater happiness …

Five lessons I wish I’d mastered back in high school that would’ve made life a whole lot easier and happier.

Before we zoom over Thanksgiving on our way to Christmas/New Years/Spring Break/Next Summer, I would like to pause to consider the most basic and greatest of gratitudes: the privilege of being here at all.

Life is curly. It takes unexpected twists and turns. It just does. It always does. And the thing is, you don’t know when the turn is coming, or what the turn will bring.

f you are one of those lucky people who knew who you were and what you wanted to do from the time you were seven years old, this column is not for you.

Some helpful thoughts for my fellow over-thinkers.

Trust is tricky. It’s all very easy to have trust when everything is going swimmingly; it’s another thing altogether to maintain total trust when you’re hanging on by your fingernails.

Our ego wants to stay comfortable, it wants to take care of number one. But the soul has higher aspirations. Which do we choose?

Cultivating happiness is both simple and difficult. It’s not esoteric, but it is very hard to practice on a daily basis. These simple steps will help.

Happiness these days is big business. But all the stuff being foisted upon us at every turn contributes not one iota to our happiness.