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Here’s an excerpt from Denise Roy’s wonderfully helpful new book “Momfulness: Mothering with Mindfulness, Compassion, and Grace.” Try this practice when you’re running late with your family, or just feeling stressed, she says. 1. First, take a slow, deep breath–for you. 2. Become aware of your thoughts, your feelings, and your physical sensations. 3. Pay…

I love deceased British singer Nick Drake as much as anybody. The melancholic, lean, long-haired man in jeans and a rumpled sports coat–who either took an overdose of his anti-depressant by mistake in 1974, or killed himself because his albums weren’t selling well–is someone whose haunting music and life story rips open my chest wall,…

Don’t miss Wendy Schuman’s interview with folk legend/civil rights leader Pete Seeger, focusing mainly on his spiritual beliefs. “I feel most spiritual when I’m out in the woods. I feel part of nature. Or looking up at the stars,” Seeger says. “[I used to say] I was an atheist. Now I say, it’s all according…

“St. Patrick was born in Britain to wealthy parents near the end of the fourth century,” says this St. Patrick bio. At the age of 16, it is said he was taken prisoner by a group of Irish raiders who took him to Ireland where he spent six years in captivity. He turned to his…
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