A Moveable Sleep
How traveling can help you find the mattress of your dreams Some things I love about travel: Trying new things, having conversations with people from different places and cultures, sampling unfamiliar foods … and then …
Unpaid Protest
Making a Sacrifice for Free Speech I must be doing something wrong. If I were doing things right, you see, I’d have earned some money last month when I went to DC to participate in …
100 Days of Waking Up
7 Lessons from Dreams and Nightmares in Difficult Times by Tzivia Gover Good Morning Dreamer, Or good afternoon, or good evening. Whatever time of day it is when you are reading this, I would like to talk …
What’s My Purpose?
Finding the Big Dream of Your Life Career counseling for high school and college students these days often consists of sitting down in front of a computer and logging onto a site that offers screen after …
The Other Hand
Unlock the Meaning of Your Dreams It’s a strange paradox: Everybody dreams—several times each night in fact—and yet most people I talk to say they rarely remember theirs, and if they do they don’t pay …
A Golden Opportunity
Beyond the Drama of the Golden Calf When I signed up to lead the weekly study circle at my synagogue, I did so having no idea what Torah portion I would be getting, but I …
The Heart Is Where Home Is
A Question for The Shaman I’d been looking forward to this day ever since I’d signed up for the writing retreat on Lake Atitlan in Guatemala a month before. Now, seated on the patio just …
Joy is Not a Luxury
Are you feeling happy? Is that even a relevant question these days? Here’s what I’ve been thinking: Just two days before the election (the one that changed everything) I’d been reading a piece the New …