“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
Maybe you didn’t hear the message explicitly, but at some point in your life you were probably asked to stop having fun. The result, an adulthood characterized by working long hours, barely breaking for lunch, returning home at the end…
Months after my former husband moved out I booked a retreat at the beautiful Omega Institute in New York, bought a new slippery black dress, and declared I was ready to move on. One of the first nights there I…
Participating in National Novel Writing Month (November) has been a challenge I’ve wanted to attempt for years. Inevitably I’d stumble upon a link or article somewhere that referenced NaNoWriMo at some point in the final days when most people were…
There are few things more welcoming than sinking my floured hands into warm dough and working it over and around until it forms a ball that is ready to rise.
Trapped in traffic crawling along Pond Street near my house in Melrose, Massachusetts I was silently fuming over potentially being late for or, worse, missing yoga class. I sighed and looked to the right through my passenger-side door window and…
It’s easy to see why Piers Park of East Boston made The Boston Globe’s reader’s list of Best Parks in Boston. It’s the perfect place to bring a date for a picnic along the harbor, let your children slide or…
A year ago today I woke just as I would have for work, put on my skirt suit normally reserved for job interviews, and walked briskly toward the train station, my fists clenched to protect my hands from the cold…
Whether or not we realize it, we all fall into roles defined by the culture and society we live in. Who you are and how you act can be influenced by your family, your teachers, friends, the news, books you’ve…
For the past five years of my life I’ve had the “Where were you on September 11, 2001?” conversation with my students and each year their responses got more and more vague until, most recently, I heard, “I wasn’t born…