Big dreams still come when we are at the top of our game, but sometimes the most influential ones come to us on the way up.

If you read closely the profiles of those at the top, chances are you will find the moment when everything changed for them --...

I was born at the tail end of the baby boom, and have had a love-hate relationship with boomers since I was young enough to know what cool was. The 60's were cool, damn it, and I had been born too late to really say I had been there.

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The next time you are out with friends, try this fun game: ask what the three most important words in a relationship are. A few of your friends will pick "I love you," and some cynics may even choose "I'm leaving you." But neither would be right. I know this,...

I did not buy my home on my own. It was bought several years ago by my then-husband and me, as we looked to the future and decided that we wanted a house on the California coast to retire to. We got a fixer for a great price, and spent...

Have you ever had a dream where you were walking down a staircase that suddenly looked too rickety to trust? Has a car in your dreams had its engine freeze up or its brakes fail? Dreams of houses and cars can refer to the human body, and are some of...

Over the past two decades a design revolution has been transforming town plazas, hospital courtyards, public parks, schoolyards and churches all across the country. Equal parts public art, spiritual heritage and stress reliever, the ancient patterns of the labyrinth are making a comeback in public places, and may be starting...

"First they ignore us, then they ridicule us, then they fight us, then we win." --Mahatma Gandhi

We all know by now that the phrase "bloggers in pajamas" is meant to insult anyone who dares to challenge accepted wisdom by writing about it outside of mainstream media channels. As...

I am as concerned as anyone about the economy, and as a dream consultant I tend to look for signs and trends in places that other forecasters may miss. These can be dream details, strange coincidences, and increasingly, what shows up in my mailbox.

At a time when more and...

In the beginning of any relationship there are habits to adjust to, personality quirks to discover, and systems to be worked out. One of you may prefer to share the covers at night, for instance, while the other may want them all to himself. It is important to talk about...

The news that older people are the fastest growing segment of Facebook users came as a shock to many, but not to me. You see, I live with one of them.

Of course I am also one myself, as my high school and college-aged kids would hastily point...

Some friends and I started a dream group on a lark one summer. 16 years later, we are still meeting every week to discuss our dreams. Somewhere along the way we stopped thinking of dreams as our mind's idle chatter, and began to be deeply affected by what we found...

Normally when we have a scary or troubling dream we try to push it out of our minds as quickly as possible. There it stays, for months and sometimes years, gathering dust in a corner of our psyche. Whenever we happen by chance to think of it again, it feels...

I pay close attention to my dreams when I am far from home. When we go away our dreams take on a different character, particularly on overseas or extended journeys. As we become unmoored from normal habits and routines, our dreams are likewise free to roam, and often show us...

Everyone has anxiety dreams. Even fabulous cable and radio show hosts like Rachel Maddow have their share of dreams where things go wrong in major ways. I just came across this video from Maddow's recent appearance at a Mother Jones fundraiser in San Francisco where she gives a...

There is no shortage of dire news these days. Even Paul Krugman is fond of quoting Yeats: "Things fall apart; the center cannot hold." And when respected economists start quoting Irish poets in their daily columns, you know something is not right.

In this time of economic upheaval,...

Midway through a sound sleep you suddenly wake up, heart pounding and head filled with horrible nightmare images. Instantly wide awake, you replay the bad dream over and over, wondering what it means and why it had to happen to you. While everyone else is asleep, rest eludes you as...

I think everyone who practices yoga should also work with their dreams. As spiritual practices go, the two are very complimentary -- one emphasizes body and breath, while the other emphasizes psyche and emotions. And something that is not widely talked about in spiritual circles is that cross-training in more...

Don't get me wrong, I am practically giddy at the thought of Bush getting the hell out of the White House. I cried with everybody else as Pennsylvania and then Ohio went for Obama on election night. But I am already being driven to drink by the hoopla over this...

It happened again last week: at a business meeting here in Sonoma County, an otherwise intelligent, creative professional started talking about how we are in for big changes in the year 2012. I did what I always do, which is to make sure my face didn't betray my utter...

Astrologer Rob Brezsny made an interesting statement recently about the state of our culture going into 2009. He was asked in an interview about people who make predictions for the future, and had this to say:

It depends on how much authority they have. It's easy to dismiss...