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For My Birthday I’m Marie Kondo’ing My Mind

By Alice Fairfax on August 21, 2019 • ( 2 Comments )

I saw George Kalogridis, the current President of Walt Disney World, at an event in Orlando recently. Someone said to him, “Of course, you know Alice.” He had the same you-look-so familiar-to-me […]

When Girls Make Noise

By Lisa Lanser Rose on November 30, 2016 • ( 7 Comments )

Kari O’Driscoll’s piece, “When Girls Make Noise,” at The Manifest-Station caught my attention when I was busy with something else, almost as if it interrupted. I loved the title, and the first line spoke […]

Meditation for Skeptics

By Katie Riegel on October 19, 2016 • ( 24 Comments )

A standard message for motivational speakers and writers of self-help books is to promise that, if you do what the book suggests, you will have success. Often there’s an element of magic […]

A Humanitarian Wedding Feast in Turkey

By Suzannah Gail Collins on September 5, 2015 • ( 1 Comment )

A Turkish bride and groom opted to feed 4,000 Syrian refugees instead of holding a traditional wedding reception. Fethullah Üzümcüoğlu and Esra Polat weighed feeding their family and friends against feeding those […]

The Exact Right Thing

By Lisa Lanser Rose on June 1, 2015 • ( 3 Comments )

by Anne Lamott You know how sometimes you go to church or temple or mosque, or to those little meetings for people like you, who perhaps have tiny control issues, or used […]

Will the Real Cheryl Strayed Please Stand Up?

By Suzannah Gail Collins on March 31, 2015 • ( 7 Comments )

I watched as Cheryl went from person to person like a hummingbird gathering nectar, engaging people as though she were truly interested in them– and I’m sure she was. She told me that she asked so many questions of her mother’s friends and house guests when she was young that her mother gave her a limit of how many questions she could ask each person. What were the types of questions she asked? “Who do you love? Why do you love them?” All questions of the interior life. Imagine a five year-old engaging you in such a conversation.