Being human
and life's little mysteries

Monday, October 10th was World Mental Health Day. The stigma around mental health, its causes and treatments, and how the stigma itself...

Someone recently contacted me in reponse to my latest newsletter , requesting to be removed from future communications because they...

So, this morning while taking my son to school I had a sort of unbelievable realisation. I’m half Lithuanian! Growing up as American, my...

Many of you know me to be a practitioner of yoga and veganism, which I have subscribed to at two distinct points of my life: as a late...

As 2021 approaches, we have yet another moment of looking through a portal – a point between A and B that feels, sometimes, like no man’s...

Morning view from kitchen. As The leaves have fallen off this statuesque beech tree, so too I’ve been going through my own state of...

Back to the Future I recently was in Dartmoor, the home to several Bronze Age ruins. Grimspound is the best preserved stone circular...

Lessons learned from the Coastal Path : a summer update Hiking, or rambling as they call it here in England, has always been a favourite...

Back in the days when photography development was manual, the exposure process was a mixture of excitement, patience and instinct. Timing...

During the course of August month took time to recover from spinal surgery, resting near a pond that is connected to a river which opens...

A memory of my five year old self exists, sitting in my mother’s giant eggshell yellow Pontiac station wagon on the way home one day from...

Warning: The below story contains a few lines that may not paint a pretty picture. but hey, is life always pretty? On Christmas eve, I...

Over the summer,  I lost a second family member to depression. While the news didn’t surprise me, what did leave an impression on me is...

Let’s face it. The transition from August to September can be dramatic for some of us – full of events that remind us of that the end of...

Greetings from Brittany! Every August I aim to physically leave London and check out a new environment, to strip daily life down to the...

A few weeks ago a very dear woman whom I was privileged to know passed away. Her death was sudden, within a month of being diagnosed with...

For those of you growing up several decades ago, you may remember the book entitled I’m OK, You’re OK. I never read it (I was a little...

Someone recently told me that I should visualize taking my head off of my body to see the world differently, implying that I over analyze...

It may not always seem like it, but we are all seeking a way to be in relationship – in our body and in the world. We rely on these...

It’s a beautiful sunny day. I wave to my darling young son and his father as they ride off on one bicycle to school. It sounds like a...