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“Is your mom mom-ish?” I overheard my older son ask another boy once. When he said it, I felt my own mom-ishness presented to me as a high concept. One wouldn’t want to be too mom-ish, would one? A little mom-ishness goes a long way. But now the most mom-ish of all days is approaching.…

My friend Frances Stahnke, director of the a yoga studio in Northern Virginia, wrote me with the following morning meditation and blessing, which she says came to her “on the spirit airways” Monday morning. You may recite it or think it as you bless the four directions, facing each direction in turn with open arms:…

The gorgeous blessing I published yesterday turns out to be Irish. That’s not too surprising, is it? And in response to one reader’s question, a lintel is a horizontal structural beam that spans any architectural opening, usually a door. Here and here are some nice old examples. A rooftree is not a pretty tree that…

In her latest nutritional newsletter, New York-based health and wellness expert Myra Klockenbrink encouraged people to visit their neighborhood grassy areas to pick young, serrated dandelion greens. She included a recipe for sautéing the greens with minced onion (or shallot), cubed red beets, sea salt, and an olive-oil-and-raspberry-vinegar dressing with walnut garnish. “Congratulate yourself,” she…

One thing great about getting older: You realize that clothes don’t matter. The cut, the style, the trendiness of whatever you’ve got on, BLAH! Those things don’t influence what you telegraph. ALL of them are subservient to…to what? Can you guess? COLOR. Color is everything. Have you hit upon this grand realization yet? The color…

Yesterday, I was standing in the elevator of Bloomingdale’s Manhattan flagship store with a red-headed saleswoman who had sold me a pair of earrings ten minutes earlier. “I actually came here to buy something to wear to my nephew’s bar mitzvah,” I said to her, “but I’m striking out badly. I need something sort of…

I like the old-fashioned idea of hanging a framed prayer or poem near a home’s entrance to bless the house, so I was happy to find this hand-written blessing that’s probably sixty years old at a Brooklyn flea market this past Saturday. I’ve seen the following verse on plaques before, but never written it down.…

How to Tame a Wild ParentFrom the excellent new paperback “Teens Ask Deepak: All the Right Questions” by Deepak Chopra. Do not give them reason to worry. See things from their point of view. Give them the benefit of the doubt. Make housework a little easier. Be responsible for your own schedule. Take care of…

“Death is a difficult topic, but thinking about it is so worthwhile. Understanding death will transform how we live. We will instinctively know what’s important and what’s not. We will want to cultivate qualities that will make us blossom spirtually and radiate peace and joy for all–and not just in this life, but also in…

Steady CM readers know that my siblings and I recently set up our 91-year-old father’s house to accommodate round-the-clock nursing care. We turned our late mother’s dressing room into a pretty single bedroom just twenty feet from Dad’s bed so that the live-in nurse can quickly rise and attend to Dad in the middle of…
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