I've been re-reading Leo Babauta's "The Power of Less". It's a book that shows it age in certain parts (the references to Google Reader and Blackberry technology is adorable), but the rest of the advice in it is timeless. I just picked up the hardback version of the book because …

I've been practicing mindfulness for a while now. I'm not great at it, but I've done OK with it. When I had a kidney stone flare up rather than try to fight it I relaxed into the moment of excruciating pain and sat with it. Most times we try to …

I've been doing more decluttering in our house. This has been a slow process, but I've found it pretty helpful to help me focus on the things that I want to be part of my life. Nothing is immune from the decluttering. At the moment I've been looking through my …

We got the results of my PET scan from last week. I have a saying about medical results now: "It's never cake", meaning that the likelihood of some positive news is unlikely. Well, the latest results bear this out. The cancer in my rectum seems to be shrinking but the …

I've been thinking a lot lately (usually in the early morning hours after Pixel gets me up for her 4-5am feeding, and I can't get back to sleep, or just before I go to bed) about how my life is going and what things I want to focus on in …