Recess with Janet

Often, I think, there is a sense that mindfulness is serious business.   We have to concentrate, darn it!   That’s true, but also incom...

I personally like the change back to standard time from daylight savings.   I get up really early, so it is nice to have the light when...

This week’s workout has slightly fewer exercises in it, so let’s shoot for four or five cycles!   And yes, burpees are back. ...

Carl Zimmer writes beautifully.   He has a science brain and a poet’s vocabulary, which makes for lovely, lucid prose.   His book At Th...

Socrates, philosopher and savior of Bill and Ted (“He loves baseball…”), instructed us to know ourselves.   He probably wasn’t thinking...

I love planning.   And office supplies.   What’s not to like about a lovely color-coded list, cross-referenced with a calendar, with bo...

Go outside and play.   I know.   It might be wet out there, or cold, or windy.   Find your jacket.   Buy one, if you don’t have a decen...