On the 57 bus one crowded Friday night an elderly woman shoves her way past the young people blocking the aisle at the front of the bus....

My mom now takes me by the hand like a child. She has been warned by my dad to always “wait for someone” before she goes down the front...

I don’t have too many things. I have moved a lot and I am a master purger. Here are the things that are always with me: the special teddy...

It’s happened twice in the past few evenings. Walking out back to call in my cat, I’ve jumped at the sight of the low orange globe of the...

Running as I do on the edges of New Age circles, I own a book that encouraged me to seek out my spirit guides. I have met people in the...

After all the meditation, after all the angel healing, the massage, the Reiki, after all my alternative weapons against pain, I sometimes...

I am beyond sick of Huff Post and Buzz Feed telling me what to “just don’t” do. So maddening! I’m ashamed, but I’ll tell you though, I’m...

In college I studied psychology. I had known the word id for a long time. I’d learned it playing Scrabble as a kid. If you were stuck...

Yesterday a new client came in. Turns out she’d been to see me “when I had my office above Deep Elum in Allston.” It took us a minute to...

Like many of us, I spent a good part of the day staring. I stayed on the phone with my mom for an hour. I felt helpless. I wasn’t hungry....

Two weeks of living on an island. Now all that matter are the ocean and the sky. All that matters is the gaping expanse of air and color....

I learned a qi gong practice called inner smiling. Smiling is smiling, everyone knows what that is. Inner smiling is simple, too. You...

She lounges with me before dawn as I type, flipping lazily though video clips and synonyms, and tossing the best ones my way. She’s pink....

Today is my birthday. I am grateful for the friends who wish me a happy birthday without prompting from social media or marketing...

Today I woke up with a mild headache. For that I am grateful. After ten-odd years of regular migraines, waking up a little sore feels...

If you have a website, sometimes you check Google Analytics. They tell you who, besides you, has visited that little dot on the internet...

Reiki practitioners say over and over again, “The Reiki knows where to go, even when we don’t know where it should go.” When your energy...

When I was sixteen a Jazzercise studio opened in a strip mall ten minutes from my house. My mother let me join with my two friends. I...

Waking up in a hot salty sweat. Wait, this is a Gratitude journal. Who would be grateful for that? Yes. Me. It reminds me of the mild...

I’ve been a massage therapist for 20 years. I have loved every minute of my career. (Ok, there was one client back in the 90s who...

I am thankful for your socks on the floor and your keys and wallet on the counter, sitting just outside the lovely pottery catchall I...

I wanted to do 30 days of without missing. I missed the last 5 days, though. I am grateful for those 5 days that I spent with my parents...

I have been to therapy. I am a spiritual seeker. I try to use “I” language and not place blame. I look for the hidden hurt behind angry...

I am doing a 30 day gratitude journal. Yesterday was Day 6. I believe in the Law of Attraction. It says if you really want to go places,...