This week’s Get Jiggy Weight Loss JigSaw Puzzle, “3 Eggs Splattered?” is both a jigsaw puzzle and a riddle (of sorts)! You’ve decided to make scrambled eggs for breakfast. You take three eggs from the refrigerator. As you are oh so gracefully moving toward the counter, one falls from your hand and smashes on the…

Spiritual Inertia Served Warm?  Have you ever wondered how it is that after decades of time-saving inventions and new technologies that “free time” has almost disappeared from our culture? “Lost time is never found again.” ~ Benjamin Franklin Spiritual Inertia? Are we time-poor, insolvent, bankrupt? Is “free time” a relic of the past? If this…

While in a poetic state of mind, I wondered if poetry were a reduction sauce might its flavor be an intensified form of “seeing;” a way of acutely observing the physical landscapes, both personal and geographic, of our lives. Might poetry be a form of mindfulness, a way to tap into the moment, into the…

It’s not that I want to rush the summer away, or prematurely much less hastily move us into the coolness of autumn, or the coldness of winter, but I am concerned that the shorter the days and the longer the nights, the more our energy will wane. It may feel as if our solar batteries…

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