Category: 2024

  • Snowflakes are us

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, April 12, 2024 Very early on in the health coaching coursework, we were introduced to the concept of “bio-individuality,” which essentially means that each one of us is unique in our body’s history, make-up, and responses.  We forget this, given that we’re all human and given our proclivity to want someone…

  • Perfect foods

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, February 1, 2024 Once my father, a retired Lt. Colonel in the Army and a mechanical engineer, was let go in the big layoff at Boeing in the 70s, he decided to stay home, much to my mother’s dismay. It was just three of us by then, instead of six, and…

  • Starting now: Idle a while

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, January 18, 2024 “The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.” Sydney J. Harris The summer after college graduation, I moved to New York from the family home in the Northwest to start a new life. I decided to go via Canadian Pacific Railway, coach class, which…

  • To breathe, and not to breathe

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, January 4, 2024 “The perfect human breathing is as if we are not breathing at all.” – Lao Tzu A few years ago, a friend of mine – an 80-year-old psychologist – pulled me aside at the end of a brunch gathering and whispered to me that we had to speak.…