My New Favorite Pandemic Hobby
Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you and your loved ones are staying safe amidst this latest surge in COVID cases. I’m hunkered down here in San Francisco for the foreseeable future and have been discovering so many new ways to make the most of quarantine time. Meditation has become one...
Getting Out of a Funk
For the first five months of the pandemic, I was doing surprisingly well. I had a few concerned friends checking in on me since I live alone but amazingly I was thriving during quarantine. My heart aches for everyone who has faced illness, loss, financial hardship, or other challenges,...
My FIRE Plan
Since discovering the FIRE movement a few years ago, I have been much more focused on the ‘Financial Independence’ part of the acronym and barely paid attention to the ‘Retire Early’ part. I am lucky to have a job that I love. I had a rather meandering series of...
Using Mindfulness to Get on Track with a Habit
Are you working on changing a habit? Perhaps exercise, or healthier eating, or reading more? I have found that mindfulness is incredibly helpful in starting a new habit or getting back on track if I start to lose momentum with something I’m working on. I thought I would share...
Difficult Times Can Be Our Fuel
My biggest takeaway from my silent meditation retreat was to change the way I relate to challenging circumstances. My natural inclination is to wish for things to be different but that just makes it worse. Equanimity is not a word I had really used before this retreat but it...
My Experience at a 10-Day Silent Meditation Retreat
Meditation was one of those things that I had wanted to explore for many years. I went to a lecture by a physician in 2011 which discussed neuroplasticity and shared some of the studies about the impacts of meditation on the brain, and that is what really piqued my...