March 6, 2019 I just heard the weather prediction and it will be 24 degrees when I leave the house tomorrow. I keep thinking that in Chinese Medicine we are a month into spring.  I enjoy looking for the new buds on the trees still empty of leaves.  But even here we are way behind the norm … Continue reading Enjoying the last of winter →

As a person who enjoys all the news reports that people with a good deal of clutter are really the creative ones, I admit that even for me there comes a moment when you have to ask why did I keep this. So why declutter now? We are the last day in the Chinese Calendar … Continue reading Go Crazy with Decluttering for the Chinese New Year →

As the days were becoming shorter this year, I started to buy books every other day.  Probably, I went a little overboard, since I’d need much more time in the day to read all of them.  But it is the action that shows my energetic need to match those long nights and slow down, and hunker down … Continue reading Winter Solstice →

  This summer has been  the fourth hottest summer ever.  Everyone is aware of this.  But people I see walking in the street behave as if they are in denial.  Now before I start on this diatribe I have to confess that I grew up in Florida.  And while I do have an olive complexion, … Continue reading I don’t want to be your mother but.. →

When I was in my mid-forties, and as I remember it in the midst of a small mid-life crisis, I began to study with a Mayan Elder in Guatemala. Over 10 years, I visited when he traveled to the States, but more often I went to Guatemala or Honduras to take spiritual walks with him. … Continue reading Finding the Sacred Earth →