We had a long weekend here in Singapore for Good Friday. After each such weekend, I wish that every weekend was a long one. Most regular weekends are spent flitting between tasks that seek to ambush and bombard me. A three-day weekend gives me a chance to slow...
When Marriage Disintegrates Into Divorce
The year I turned 40, two important relationships in my life ended. My mother died. And I filed for divorce. My mother’s death was sudden and unexpected. But my marriage had been a disaster in the making for almost two decades. Loss, whether to cruel death or...
Timely Thoughts to Welcome March
When you get to the end of your life, the sum total of all the things you paid attention to will have been your life ~ Oliver Burkeman It’s the first day of the third month of 2022. Really?? Where did the first two months of 2022 go? Time has been on my mind lately....
The Strange Connection Between Happiness And Gratitude
Let’s start with a question. What comes first? Gratitude or Happiness? Research shows that expressing gratitude for things that you have (or are working in your life) gives you a pleasant feeling, a serotonin boost. And one way of defining happiness includes a general...
Savoring – The Opposite of Efficiency
After a few weeks in the USA where winter weather meant that the sun was not to be seen for several days, I found myself appreciating the sunshine that I take for granted when I’m home. In sunny Singapore, my day began with warm daylight streaming into my bedroom...
Preparing For A New Year, Again – Welcome 2022
As a resident of Singapore, I’m typically at the front of the wave of people ushering in the New year thanks to its eastern location. This year on New Year’s eve, I am in the West Coast of California, which has a whopping 16 hour time difference. It feels...
It’s Launch Day!
It’s finally here! 15th October 2021! The day my book becomes available to readers everywhere. Under my ribs is a feeling that is a curious mixture of happy butterflies and a quiet sense of accomplishment, with a pinch of anxiety about how my book baby will be...
A New Series – Conversations About Community
My book launch is exactly one week away! Can’t believe that the day is so close. The final lap of the race. The last few steps to the summit. As I take a deep breath and look back the road thus far, I see a common theme. As far as my eye can see, I see a...
Five Self-care Strategies For a Long Race
"Start a run and make sure you finish the run. Don't mind how fast or how slow you are running. Just run. But the ultimate goal is to finish" ~ Eliud Kipchoge Many years ago I signed up for a yoga teacher training program. It was a four-week residential program...
How to Avoid Burnout While Creating Consistently
Sharing three ways through which I find my way back to coherence when the demands of consistent creation wear me down
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