Improvising our lives . . .

            Shall We Improvise? Dreaming of a well-organized life, stress free? When was the last time that everything went exactly as plann...

The Four Acceptances Metaphors can provide windows of light.  Improvisation, about which I have taught and written for decades, is a useful ...

  What Am I Receiving?   We live in a   pervasive  culture of entitlement.  It is  fashionable to  imagine : “I’m a self-made person.  I got...

  “Soon enough, nobody will remember life before the Internet.  What does this unavoidable fact mean?”   Michael Harris, The End of Absence ...

Beginnings             I have a clear memory of a vocabulary lesson in sixth grade English: the word was "pragmatic."  I loved the...

Random Acts of Kindness Introductions The Improv Game created by  Nat Tsolak August, 2015     From Wikipedia: “Random act of kindness A  ran...

A Better Marriage:  Five Ways to be a good husband or wife Constructive Living reminds us that we can only improve ourselves. We can’t “fix...

  Our Culture of Improv   What do we all need?     To belong.   To be safe.  To be valued.   To feel free to be yourself.  To create without...

“When the student is ready, the teacher will appear. .  .”     In the summer of 1980, I attended a Tai Chi workshop at Esalen with my teache...

 Reflections  . . . Stories Starring Women  The Bechtel Test   Celebrating the Everyday life of Women  BATS Improv August 26 and 27, 2016 So...