Allow and Detach Allow and Detach Allow and Detach Allow and Detach Allow and Detach This is the phrase that kept popping up in my head during and after meditation this morning. I realize I’m oftentimes pushing for things to happen. Stuff on my to-do list. My kid to clean Read more…
Happy New Year! Can’t believe it’s the end of another year. A decade, in fact. As we watch the fireworks from our apartment in Austin, my family and I, we are reminded of the differences in experiences where we have resided in our lifetime so far. In the Bay Area Read more…
Oftentimes in life, it’s easy to succumb to old ways of being, of thinking. Mine tends to automatically go into what’s going wrong. A friend of mine, who happens to also be a therapist and life coach, had stopped me mid-conversation one day over the phone. “Wait a minute, Lily. Read more…
I just watched my kid play Tetris, a game I used to play as a kid with my siblings. First he showed me a video of an older guy, a 7-time champion, vs a 16-year-old kid. Watching the video, and then my kid play the game himself on his laptop Read more…
I’m a huge lover of stories about dysfunctional families. Maybe because I grew up in one that was all at once nonsensical yet overwhelmingly loving. Maybe that’s why I’m in love with stories by George Saunders like “Sticks”, David Sedaris’ stories, as well as Augusten Burroughs’ Running with Scissors or Read more…