One thing that blocks flow is self-consciousness.

In all of my looking at happiness, one thing I noticed right away is that the opposite of happiness isn't unhappiness or even depression, it's anxiety. It is something that can constantly block our happiness, or our chance to reach that sort of meditative state in our work or our home lives.

I'm sure there were plenty of loving, attentive mothers in the 'me generation,' but none of them lived at my house.

They say change gets more difficult as we get older - each year we're more stuck in our ways, more reluctant to learn something new.

The last introvert in a world of extroverts. Silence: my response to both emptiness and saturation. But silence frightens people. I had to learn how to talk. Out of politeness.

Settling other people's land is an American tradition.

Nourish the world with your words, yo.