To meditate means to examine. It doesn't mean you have to sit in a lotus position in silence (although you can). It means you are attending to what's ...
Karen Salmansohn | Posted 06.20.2008 | Living
Confession: One night I was busy doing my bills and folding my laundry while watching a TV special about transsexuals -- and I found one thought -- an...
Kay Goldstein | Posted 05.28.2008 | Living
Life is certainly not simple now, but we humans have gotten in the habit of making it more complicated. "Do more" is the message from every quarter. T...
Brent Kessel | Posted 02.22.2008 | Living
Last Saturday, as with virtually every Saturday for the last eight years, I woke up with the intention that I would not do any work of any kind - no e...
Susan Smalley | Posted 02.21.2008 | Living
In the aftermath of the shooting last week on another college campus, I am reminded of a common response to such horrors: to pray and seek solace from...
Verena von Pfetten | Posted 01.09.2008 | Living
It's the start of the sixth week of My Spiritual Journey, and I feel like I've hit a hump. I've asked a nun for guidance, and I've confessed my sins. ...
Karen Kisslinger | Posted 12.18.2007 | Living
With good intentions for the health and happiness of all, I offer up instruction in the essentials of the meditation practice of "loving kindness" or, as it is traditionally called: "metta."
Peter Clothier | Posted 12.14.2007 | Living
Practice. It's a word that I find more and more on my lips and at the tips of my fingers as they ply the keyboard. It describes an activity that has...
In a candid interview via satellite from China, Olympic...
Update: Keith Olbermann had Rachel Maddow on "Countdown" Tuesday night to celebrate...
UPDATE: A day after Roseanne's blogs from below...
"How honest are we if we tell the truth most of the time &...
Obama's been to Hawaii. We're moving...
I've read the comments. I know what some of you think. Yawn. It's not a story. He's not...
LOS ANGELES — Barack Obama is getting praise from Nashville, courtesy of one...
The New York Times' Kit Seelye is backing up NBC's Andrea Mitchell, who reported on...
Michael Phelps, Michael Phelps, Michael Phelps. With all the play his name gets right now,...
NEW YORK — The suspense didn't quite compare to the identity of "Deep Throat,"...
As much as I dreaded turning 30, believe it or not I'm actually starting to...
Turning conventional neuroscience on its head, new research suggests the...
BURKE, N.Y. -- Everywhere that Janet and Ken Tacy...
Susan Smalley | Posted 08.07.2008 | Living