Don’t Blame the Treadmill

I’m old enough to be stupid when it comes to my relationship with treadmills (there’s even academic research on the hedonic treadmill). If I have a choice during the day

Don’t Blame the Treadmill

Do You Have an Inner Critic?

When it comes to money, finance and accounting, I have ideas! Ideas I love to explore, build into new systems and tools and share with others. My ideas arise from two

Do You Have an Inner Critic?

Flirting with Sobriety

I’ve known about my cancer for six years and I’ve known about my proclivity for drinking for fifty years. Recently, I have, occasionally, dropped my drinking for a week or

Flirting with Sobriety

Does Going Vegan Reverse Your Biological Age?

I decided to co-found an upscale vegan restaurant, Millennium, that became a sensation as it turned out that affluent vegans were tired of their low-end, bean sprout options and wanted

Does Going Vegan Reverse Your Biological Age?

The Humans We Wish We’d Met

I love preacher/poet/philosopher John O’Donohue and wish I’d met him before he passed three days after he turned 52. So many in the MEA community are fans of his that

The Humans We Wish We’d Met

Film Review: Should The Substance be called The Suffering?

It’s 1:30 pm and I’m sitting in an empty Violet Crown movie theater in Santa Fe’s Railyard. I still smell of mineral baths and I’m ready to watch a long

Film Review: Should The Substance be called The Suffering?

The Middle of the Night in Bottom of the Bathtub

I get up and meditate, pondering the weighty question of whether I sneak back into the other side of the bed or wash my sheets or slink into my oversized

The Middle of the Night in Bottom of the Bathtub

How to Find Liberation Through Acceptance: The Power of Embracing Midlife

“I just talked to the neurologist,” my brother, a doctor, said in a crackly voice. “She’s got Alzheimer’s.” His words hit me like a truck, even though I knew their

How to Find Liberation Through Acceptance: The Power of Embracing Midlife

A 77-year-old at a Midlife School?

On the final day of my five-day workshop at a ranch in Santa Fe on the new MEA campus, a midlife wisdom school, I looked around the room at my

A 77-year-old at a Midlife School?

Climate Change and Lifetime Range – We’re Not Ready for Either!

For all kinds of reasons – immediate vs. delayed rewards, collective action problems, faulty social and political structures – we don’t prepare well for the inevitable. Our hope of adaptation

Climate Change and Lifetime Range – We’re Not Ready for Either!

New Mexico is Short for Nomadic Mavericks

In this past weekend’s NY Times Magazine there was a gushing story called “New Mexico Is Where the Outlaw Artists Live” which became a mecca for artists a century ago

New Mexico is Short for Nomadic Mavericks