Lolling and bobbing down the coast towards Stinson Beach, David and I are trolling for salmon and savoring a late summer morning. I inhale deeply — the air is a delicious cocktail of ocean vapor stirred with summer heat, with a whiff of beach grass around the…

(I was going to post this the weekend of September 25th but with the passing of Justice Ginsberg, this feels like a better time) A mourning dove coos on the shimmering ridgetop above me. Down here, I’m descending a narrow trail in a cocoon of…

In a recent session with my coach, I gained a fresh understanding of the importance of curiosity and the value of not having answers. The story went something like this. I told my coach about a recent session with one of my clients – a…

Don’t let fear trick you into taking actions that don’t serve you… There are few things that can infect another person faster than a highly contagious virus, but fear tops them all. A recent experience illustrates the power of thought to trick people into misguided…

Is the unknown a place to be feared? Or does it contain everything could ever want? A few years ago, I interviewed a young mother with stage 4 melanoma about the nature of wellbeing. She had discovered her cancer during the birth of her first…

(bring your own rainbow) Foreword: This tale about a recent, unplanned excursion into a forgotten realm of enchantment, is one of the gifts which my understanding of life occasionally bestows on me. A moment when “a glance lengthens into the gaze.”* We cannot live in…