Last Sunday I bought an I-Phone
It was a VERY big deal for me because I had been talking about it forever and also waffling on if the monthly fee would be too much and wondering if I was too much of a Luddite to master the thing.
Buying an I-Phone is a very good thing
The GPS direction app alone  […]

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I get a lot of strokes for being so honest in my writing and my retreats. It’s healing to see I don’t have it all together. I feel the same way - it makes me feel less alone when someone I admire for their writing or ideas or artwork reveals their own messy process. But […]

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I believe we can get to a place where we can let go of anger, fear and other negative emotions, where we are more like the Tibetan monk Matthieu Ricard writes about in Happiness then say, OJ. Simpson. The monk spent twenty-five years in Chinese labor […]

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I read the most beautiful poem in LIFE IS A VERB by Patti Digh last night. I love this book - Patti has taken what could be a hackneyed subject — how would you live if you had 37 days left? - and made it sing through her deep heart and generously wonderful writing. The poem that […]

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Welcome to my long OVERDUE new website. The original Comfortqueen.com launched in May 2000 and although we made changes along the way, for the last three years, it was dated, riddled with broken links, and no longer reflected me. People would report broken links and ask where the e-cards went or that they missed the […]

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The New York Times Sunday magazine did a cover piece this weekend on the falling birth rate in Europe. While my reaction was mostly, “Isn’t this basically good news? Isn’t overpopulation still one of the main strains on our human survival?” the part that made me chortle and sigh was the broad and deeper reason […]

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I didn’t know this but on September 2007 when I declared a nine-month retreat — sabbatical, what I was really declaring was, “Where do I go when now that I’ve gotten to the end of my dreams?” At the time, my dreams seemed fine, thank you very much, but as I moved into less and less doing, […]

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“Where do you go when you get to the end of your dreams?” Dan Fogelberg
I was on hold with my local clinic about my big toe – which stubbornly is not healing*—when I realized I was […]

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I’m rereading, for first time since high school or college, Middlemarch by George Eliot. I’ve wanted to for a long while as one of the main characters, Dorothea, has informed my main character of Jane (in my yet to be rewritten novel) but I lacked the mind space to pay attention to Eliot’s intricate […]

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If all life is change, if the off-center, in-between state is the ideal situation, the place we can open our hearts and minds beyond limit into the infinite and perhaps where we can unite with all that is, and where our learning is quickened, accelerated, enhanced then I don’t know is a holy mantra.
What is my […]

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