There’s so much advice about reducing stress that it’s created a entire new genre of stress.
Hundreds of tips to try right now. Self help guides with months-long action plans. Shelves of books. Magazine headlines.
Exercise more, …

contemplating incipient sea change
Last New Year’s Eve, I found myself at the piano after a 20-year absence. As a direct result, I am now faced with the largely self-inflicted terror of playing a Bach prelude …

The message of Sea Change is simple – as important truths tend to be.
Each day, we’re pulled in a hundred different directions. The din of the demands coming from the outside makes it hard to …

It started when my friend Cathy handed me a sack of paperback books-on-loan. Swapping books is a practice we’d established over time. Some were meant to be returned, others were to be passed along to …