FLOWERS FALL
Finding Ourselves in the History of Expert Advice – What We Didn’t Used to Think About
CHRONOGRAM MAGAZINE – Flowers Fall: Field Notes from a Buddhist Mom’s Experimental Life
Taking another look at our obsession with parenting.
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An Interview with Andrew Solomon – the Heartbreaking Realization of Parental Love
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The first episode of my new life as an impersonal essayist.
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A Big Change
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Saying good-bye to a transitional object.
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Did you Want to Have a Kid? And Other Impossible Questions
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How to Live with the Truth.
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Non-Duality for President
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Can’t Zen and Feminism Just Get Along?
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The Way of the Bodhisattva: Really?
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Some Thoughts on Offering.
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The Human Way
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Finding my Seat as a Human Parent.
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Looking at Humans is Fun: An interview with Anthony Graesch
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Life at Home, according to science.
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Dealing with Feelings on the Last Day of School
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Bypass this!
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A Strange Kind of Hope at the Dawn of Father’s Day
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A hopeful message from the primates
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Right Effort
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Daido chides me from beyond.
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Is This My Chair?
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Looking for a place to land. And finding it.
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The Treasure So Precious, There’s No Word for It:
A Conversation with Amy Chua on the Intimate Practice of Tiger Parenting
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The Tiger Mother purrs.
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A Descent into the Dream World: Andre Dubus III on Fatherhood, Karma and Creativity
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Not Exactly Treasured, but Loved.
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She and I
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We’re the same thing, but I am not her, and she is not me.
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Minding Our Business
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Can talking about Buddhism really help anyone?
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Letting Go
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Getting in touch with some of the basics.
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Taking the Attachment Parenting Challenge: A Week in Italy, Part 2
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We went, we returned, let’s process.
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Taking the Attachment Parenting Challenge: A Week in Italy, Part 1
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1,2,3…let’s go!
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Are You Happy? Considering the Lobster Within
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A tribute to David Foster Wallace
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Mirror Mirror: A Generation of Godless Girls
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Sinking into the Body.
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It’s A Beautiful World: Kim John Payne on Simplicity Parenting
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Simplicity is even simpler than I thought.
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Something Good
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The Sound of Music Darma
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Ding, Ding! The Middle Way Wins Again
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Taking on Amy Chua and Zen Momma.
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It’s Winter Now
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Looking at the past with a fresh eye. Again!
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Those Who Came Before
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Reflecting on my Female Ancestors
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The Bad News
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Impermanence Revisited
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Will What’s Real About Childhood Please Stand Up?
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Getting my bearings in the conditioned world.
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Why Mindful Parenting Won’t Keep You Up All Night: A Conversation with Jon Kabat Zinn
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Mindfulness! What a concept.
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Why Have Kids?
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Happiness, Schnappiness!
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Spring: A Love Poem for Azalea
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From my month as an artist-in-residence at Byrdcliffe Artist Colony…
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The Truth: It’s Dizzying
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What Andre Agassi and kindergarten have in common.
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A Woman’s Life
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Reflecting on life in this body.
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Touching the Depths: An Interview with Acharya, Judith Simmer Brown, on Motherhood and Practice, Part 2
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The Tibetan view of karma and reincarnation, among other things.
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Touching the Depths: An interview with Judith Simmer Brown, Part 1
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One Buddhist mom to another.
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My New Year’s Resolution: Putting My Kid First
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What I learned from shape-shifting at Adam’s.
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The December Dilemma
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Jew-Bu reflections on the holiday season.
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Oh My Goddess! A Dispatch From Planet Princess
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Is it so wrong to be disgruntled with Disney?
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Inexhaustible
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For my teacher.
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A Mean Animal Practices the Hard Way
LION’S ROAR
When help is so, totally not on the way.
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A Dream
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The so-called reality of love and terror.
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Thirsty: Wading Through the Intoxicating Waters of Being Bad
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Why being bad has never looked so good.
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The Slow Parent Trap
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How slow can you go?
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Picking and Choosing: Mindful Eating for Kids and Families, Part 2
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What I learned from the experts.
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Picking and Choosing: Mindful Eating for Kids and Families, Part 1
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Talking to experts about feeding a picky eater.
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Ego, Interrupted
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Who’s more of a nobody? A bodhisattva or her mom?
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No, Get Mom
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Taking a look at the past and what it all means: nothing?
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Love is in the Air: Let’s Play Parenting Trivia
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It’s a quiz!
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Happy New Year
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New Year’s reflections on domestic bliss and impermanence.
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A Detatched Look at Attachment Parenting
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A look at the history of “attachment parenting” and how the Buddhist practice of non-attachment can help us become truly attached.
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Primordial Mirror
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“As someone who is not always crazy about what she sees in the mirror, it can be brutal to see myself parading around in the body of a two-year old.”
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The Incredible, Disappearing Drama
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“When I gave birth to Azalea, I was very soon struck by how much I could love a person – so truly, so sincerely, so totally – and yet still struggle to manifest that love.”
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