My daughter was packing her car again. We planned to catch a quick lunch—hot dogs, at Steve’s Snapping Dogs on Colfax–our shared guilty pleasure. During which she would give me the crash course in using my new iPad she had not had time to, until now, this last day of a winter break from college […]
The upside of hip fractures
I’m just back from a ski trip to Crested Butte, Colorado, with family and friends, and thought I’d post this excerpt from my first collection of essays about practicing A Course in Miracles unique forgiveness, Extraordinary Ordinary Forgiveness. Written five years ago on another New Year’s trip to Crested Butte, it reflects where I was […]
Home for the holidays
“RESPONSIBLY RAISED TURKEYS!” I sat in the parking lot in my little Subaru, staring up at the sign still standing outside the local Whole Foods store, although Thanksgiving had come and gone, along with the aforementioned politically correct fowl. Only a week ago, I had smiled at the irony of the sign’s message, the guilt […]
Rocking around the Christmas tree
(Here’s another excerpt from my latest collection of forgiveness essays, Forgiveness Offers Everything I Want—happy holidays! :)) Last week we put up our Christmas tree, strung it with brand new LED lights, adorned it with ornaments, and watched, aghast, as it fell down. The little dog, thankfully spared, spun in mad circles. I stood a […]
Fear of redemption
I sat cross-legged on a cushioned chair in the darkened, candle-lit room of the little drop-in neighborhood meditation center I’ve begun frequenting, alone again with the vast depth of my resistance to doing what this Course says, the busyness of my robotically wandering mind. The bamboo-sheltered fountain gurgled. The white noise of an overhead fan […]
Hooray for Hollywood Redux
(Here’s another excerpt from my recently published book of forgiveness essays, Forgiveness Offers Everything I Want. Hope you enjoy!) In the middle of a winning performance with one of my costars the other day the ego apparently hacked into the script. “You always …” “I can’t believe you …” “How could you …” Her accusations […]
Which teacher are you listening to?
I awoke again horrified to find the ego once more center stage in my puny brain. “Hey, sunshine,” it boomed, in an all-too-familiar voice, reminiscent of Bill Murray playing Nick the Lounge Singer in the old Saturday Night Live routine. “How’s it rolling?” What part of vacate the premises did it continue to not understand? […]
A Conversation with Ken Wapnick: be gentle with yourself
(Lots of external seeming disruptions in my imaginary forgiveness classroom this week, so decided to share an interview I did with Ken Wapnick in February 2012—enjoy!) I was fortunate enough to sit down again recently with Ken Wapnick while attending a workshop at the Foundation for A Course in Miracles (FACIM) in Temecula, California. Many of […]
Real intimacy: from me first to we
Macaroni and cheese and the comfort of gracious guidance
While cramming for unexpected exams in my forgiveness classroom this week, I thought I’d share another excerpt from my new essay collection, Forgiveness Offers Everything I Want, about finding comfort where we think we are, even as we’re learning the only real comfort lies in our one, healed mind. A lot has changed in my […]