daily life

2 min read 2022-05-24 20:00:40

You Can Change the World

“Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render to the world.” ~Ramana Maharshi In some ways, it’s a dark time in the history

2 min read 2022-05-20 22:00:00

Earlier this month, I joined a running club – the newish, informal, neighborhood group that meets at the foot of the Golden Stairs, mere yards

2 min read 2022-05-16 18:44:39

“The discovery that peace, happiness and love are ever-present within our own Being, and completely available at every moment of experience, under

1 min read 2022-04-29 19:01:00

Loving Working “We clean to give space for Art.” Micaela Miranda, Freedom Theatre, Palestine Work was a shining refuge when wind

2 min read 2022-04-27 20:10:58

I’m on my way back from a lesson with a student (who is also my friend, gynecologist, etcetera, etcetera) where I’ve just successfully got her

7 min read 2022-04-11 16:45:00

Passive solar heating is a “hot topic” these days (no pun intended). Did you know it was being used on Regency estates and even 150 years before

1 min read 2022-04-04 21:39:00

March ended up being a very full month – it included a trip out west to see dear friends in Tucson, the L.A. suburbs and (again) San Diego. Plus a

2 min read 2022-03-26 19:43:41

By Caitlin Kelly These days, who isn’t stressed?! So here’s the latest version of my ongoing series, the one in which I look around my daily life

2 min read 2022-03-19 18:56:24

By Caitlin Kelly Nope, we are not “post” pandemic! I now keep masks in my purses and the car and almost every pocket. I do not like wearing a

7 min read 2022-03-14 21:00:26

Raúl Cañibano Ercilla is considered one of the most gifted photographers in Latin America. Few others capture the lifestyle of his Cuban homeland

2 min read 2022-03-11 21:13:00

Last week, I hopped a Green Line train after work to go hear my friend Louise Miller have a books-and-baking conversation with fellow author Vallery

1 min read 2022-03-08 20:20:00

Winter can be a tough season: it’s cold, dark and frequently snowy where I live. This winter, I’m leaning hard into small everyday delights, and

3 min read 2022-02-27 21:30:55

Two anthropomorphic figures, nicknamed by researchers “Ghassan” (left) and “Abu Ghassan” (right), discovered inside a Neolithic ritual

2 min read 2022-02-25 21:04:00

My one little word for 2022 is true. It came to me in a yoga class, which makes me sound a lot more zen than I usually am. But I’d been mulling

3 min read 2022-02-14 17:03:00

References to Valentine’s Day go back to early times. Chaucer mentions it, and so does Shakespeare. By the 1600’s, giving gifts or tokens to