Is Happiness Just A Buzzword?

by | Mar 13, 2015 | Blogs

We’re inundated with it now.  I blame Pharrell.  He has us all dancing to “Happiness is the Truth!” Okay, so I don’t really blame him.  Sometimes art mirrors life and sometimes, vice versa.  But true art always picks up on the rhythm of human emotions, the good, the...

I Was A Spear Chucker Once

by | Mar 12, 2015 | Blogs

Well, that’s not exactly true! I’m actually a spear chucker almost every day. The psychologist Carl Jung said that while we may be the heroes in our own stories, at the same time we’re also the spear chuckers in someone else’s. Which just means of course that as we...

How I Started A Journey Once

by | Mar 11, 2015 | Blogs

Of course it was about writing a novel. Mine often are, as, well, that’s what I do!  Just about everything in my life circles back into fiction, one way or another. It doesn’t matter what the journey focuses on, though; any undertaking follows a similar path, with the...

How To Forge Ahead When You’re Afraid

by | Mar 10, 2015 | Blogs

We all get afraid.  That’s just part of being human.  If you feel no fear, you’re deceiving yourself.  Which none of us do, right?  J Of course we all also know the Victor Hugo quote, “Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.”  We know that.  But...

Stuffed Anger Makes You Literally Sick

by | Mar 10, 2015 | Blogs

Anger comes knocking.  We all get stung by its prickly spines now and then.  And ours is justified, no?  I was right, he was wrong, damn it! Funny thing about that emotion too—you can just think of a situation that made you angry and start to feel the heat rising in...

I Did Find Joy, And You Can Too

by | Mar 6, 2015 | Blogs

We all know that happiness, peace, joy are all things you find within you.  Right? All the gurus in all the world’s traditions tell us that.  From Jesus saying, “The kingdom of heaven is within you,” to Pharrell’s Grammy Winning “Happiness is the truth,” the message...