And that’s given me comfort — Generally speaking, people have never really liked me. I realize that sounds like something to say to get reassurance from the reader — “That’s not true! Who wouldn’t like you?” And honestly, not too long ago that would’ve been my motive — I had a desperate need to be told…

The change wasn’t overnight, but I began to feel differences throughout my life rather quickly — There’s a sketch from MadTV that I think of a lot. A man & woman are seated at a restaurant, and the woman is, she insists loudly, not on a DIET, she’s on a LIVE IT. The woman, played brilliantly by Nicole Sullivan, is obviously hungry to the point of…

1.) I was born near the end of the Nixon administration — perhaps that’s what set me off on the wrong foot. It was a few days before Christmas in 1972 when I made my debut in Austin, Texas, the only child of my parents’ union and the only child…

Empower Your Magical Self: The Podcast (Episode 12) — “I feel like magic is being willing to reside in the mystery…we’re so conditioned to look at everything through the lens of our intellect and understand things, like ‘I need to understand it in order to buy in’ or ‘it needs to make sense to in order for me to…

Empower Your Magical Self: The Podcast (Episode 11) — Magic is a choice. it comes from within…So let me get into the science of it just really fast. when you’re depressed you actually don’t process colors the same way… the brightness of the tones that you see becomes very narrow when you’re depressed. So the world that very depressed…

How Needle and Spike Were Retired — Game of Thrones was a cultural phenomenon for good reason. Beyond the dragons, epic battle scenes, and graphic sex, the core of the story was chock full o’ Jungian archetypes and universal themes of good and evil (embodied, at least for a while, in a bratty teenage king, no less). …

Empower Your Magical Self: The Podcast (Episode 10) — November 15th is exactly one month before my 51st birthday. It’s also the release date of the tenth episode of my podcast, Empower Your Magical Self, featuring my guest, Integrative Life Coach Sarah Maurer (aka “Miss Adventure Pants” on social media). Sarah and I come to the body/mind/spiritual healing space…

Empower Your Magical Self: The Podcast (Episode 9) — Magic is something that’s out of the ordinary…it’s extraordinary. I feel like in energy work, even people on their first day of Reiki 1 just learning how to do stuff — they experience magic. So It doesn’t have to be that rarified. It can be on a daily basis —…

The Holy Whole of Humanity’s Holey Existence — Lately I’ve begun scraping my tongue. On purpose. I even bought a little metal wishbone-looking tool for the purpose. Ideally, it’s another good habit to add to my (really quite remarkable, considering where I was 3 years ago) repertoire of habits. But I’m not doing it every day. …