Category: Deep Stuff, Sort Of

  • Star bathing 101

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, September 12, 2025 “This is the first, wildest and wisest thing I know, that the soul exists and that it is built entirely out of attentiveness.” — Mary Oliver As a teenager growing up in Seattle, I was pretty unhappy, frankly, given the Catholic girls’ school, the rules in my father’s…

  • Digital freeze out

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, August 1, 2025 “We live in a digital world, but we’re fairly analog creatures.” –Omar Ahmad On a morning walk recently, and tuning into a health podcast I found at the last minute, what often happens with information happened again: The subject I’m interested in finds me, all algorithms aside. Though…

  • The best medicine

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, July 18, 2025 “Laughter is inner jogging.” – Norman Cousins You’re just not going to find too many people who will argue that laughter is not good for you. Maybe not a single person, or even a single grumpy person. I was thinking of my father — retired military man and…

  • Skin check

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, April 25, 2025 “The finest clothing made is a person’s own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.” – Mark Twain If those ads about crepey skin have started meaning something to you (or if you simply live here at altitude, no matter what your age), it could…

  • Cognitive overload

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, April 11, 2025 “I use journaling as a tool for organization, stress reduction and clearing my head.” — Tim Ferriss I have been thinking hard about certain aspects of mental health. Mine, yours, all of ours. How do we floss our brains the same way we floss our teeth — to…

  • Crazy for sleep

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, September 12, 2024 I can tell you exactly when I got the best sleep of my life, aside from childhood and adolescence: my mid 20s in NYC, in a “wrong movie” period, when I just wanted out after four years of city life. Where I actually landed — before moving away…