As we cross the threshold of a new year, can we embrace what's ahead — with all its messiness and challenge — and offer ourselves and our world compassion and ...
We stand on the cusp of a new year, another threshold, which, oddly enough, tends to get us thinking not about where we are standing at that moment but about ...
My feature essay from the January 2024 issue of Give Us This Day:
A fresh span of twelve months stretches out before us now, like a blank canvas daring us ...
'Tis the season to start thinking about our grand self-improvement plans for 2023, right? It's right around this time of year, when we're eating too many ...
Kick off 2023 with a plan for an inner revolution, not an outer resolution! We are not looking to drop pounds or start a new exercise routine. We are looking to ...
Hello, my lovelies! Were you wondering if I had forgotten about you and our plan to start a reVolution not a resolution? There is a method to my madness. As I ...
Regular readers of this blog know that I am not a fan of the standard new year's resolution approach to life. Losing 10 pounds, exercising more often, drinking ...
Okay, so we skipped Week 4 here on the blog. I have to apologize. I was not taking my own advice and was allowing myself to sink into a bit of darkness and ...
How are we doing, gang? We are moving into week three already. Can you believe it? How is your 2021 so far? It definitely seems like it's going to give 2020 a ...
A new episode of the Life Lines podcast has finally posted. Every time I record one I have to figure out how to use GarageBand all over again. The struggle is ...
When I was thinking about what I would tackle during Week 2 of our revolution-not-resolution journey of self-transformation, I looked at the original blog post ...
Hello, my lovelies! Were you wondering if I had forgotten about you and our plan to start a reVolution not a resolution? There is a method to my madness. As I ...
With 2020 in our rearview mirror, most of us are hoping for a new year that looks nothing like the old year. As we struggled through past 10 months of pandemic, ...
For those who frequent this blog, you know my end-of-year rallying cry has always been: ReVolution, not resolution! Why? Because resolutions don't work. How do ...
Week three. Time is flying! How are things on your end? Here’s the weekly update:
It was a SUPER stressful week, especially the weekend. To be completely ...
I don’t know about you, but right about now I could use a tribe, a group of like-minded folks who want to band together for support on the journey. I was ...
We interrupt our regularly scheduled program -- the "Pray, Love, Then Eat" blog tour for Cravings -- to get back to a good, old-fashioned spirituality ...
Noah will officially turn 15 at 7:11 p.m. (technically that's Central Time). I cannot think of his newborn days without thinking of this song. The two of us ...
What new routines have you vowed to start and keep this year? A healthy eating plan? Exercise regimen? House re-organization effort? The new year offers the ...
Here's my latest Life Lines column from the new issue of Catholic New York. (Disclaimer: I have since rejoined the YMCA. Still no resolutions though...P.S. Noah ...