A Brilliant, Feminist Novel
Elizabeth Gilbert’s City of Girls is both empowered and empowering—a story of 1940’s Manhattan, told by the funny, beguiling, and deeply human narrator, Vivian Morris. She arrives in...
Elizabeth Gilbert’s City of Girls is both empowered and empowering—a story of 1940’s Manhattan, told by the funny, beguiling, and deeply human narrator, Vivian Morris. She arrives in...
Charlie Mackesy’s sweet, whimsical book The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse expresses the wisdom of mindfulness and heart practices. The story and words are simple: a boy befriends...
In a recent talk on meditation, Jack Kornfield said, “We can direct and train our attention, and we can fill it with positive qualities.” Meditation can be practiced in many different...
Sharon Olds teaches at NYU and I got to hear her read some of the odes several years ago, before they were published—pure delight! Many are about stuff you can't mention in polite...
Tamar Adler’s book An Everlasting Meal: Cooking With Economy and Grace is a delightful guide to feeding ourselves with delicious, homemade, whole foods that use all parts of all things....
One of the most important things we can do is try to understand each other. It sounds simple, but it's not always easy. It takes attention and compassion, an ability to look beyond our...
These books from the past year, by two Pulitzer Prize winners and two debut novelists, are captivating and gorgeously written. Vastly different in style, they enclose you in their vivid...
How often do you slow down and exist in present-moment awareness? Not planning or remembering but just being, observing, right here and now? Maybe fairly often if you're a yoga teacher...
Ever wondered what it’s like on the presidential campaign trail? All that behind-the-scenes stuff that shapes what the media decides to show us, and what the candidates decide to do...