As a follow up to Wednesday’s post, I’m declaring this weekend: Simple Pleasure Weekend! What this means is that all weekend I’m going to magnify my experience of simple pleasures and delight in the mundane, everyday things of life. Want to join me?  Here are some examples to get you started… Deeply inhale, slowly taking [...]

Last week I got this note from TUT in my inbox (if you don’t get TUT already you can sign up here). Until the really “great” stuff comes along, Maria, do the not-so-great stuff. The not-so-great stuff always leads to the great stuff. Whereas doing nothing pretty much leads to nowhere. And do it with [...]

A lot of people I know (me included sometimes) hate change.  I was thinking about this the other day and it occurred to me that it’s not really change we hate but something else. Change is just a part of life.  If we never changed then we’d still all be in diapers crawling around our [...]

According to family therapist Virginia Satir, humans need a minimum of 4 hugs a day just for survival. 8 hugs classifies as a “maintenance dose” and we need 12 or more hugs a day for growth. Personally, I recommend at least 20 hugs or more a day to keep you brimming over with love and [...]