Author: Simone Butler

I stopped by Computer Geek yesterday to get a new battery for my old Iphone. But the process turned out to be more complicated than it first appeared.…

Every year around this time, I tell myself I’m going to do less and enjoy it more. That I won’t let the pressures of the season build up until I become overwhelmed.…

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity,” observed the Roman philosopher Seneca. And certainly, doing your due diligence and being observant can lead to good fortune. But how do you explain a stroke of luck like the one that happened recently to a client of mine?…

We are about to experience something auspicious that only happens about thirteen times in a century. Astronomers call it a “transit of Mercury,” in which the Winged Messenger passes directly across the Sun.…

Toward the end of his illustrious career, psychiatrist Carl Jung shared the story of a young female patient who had been to two doctors prior to him with no relief.…

If you’ve been sensing a “do or die” feeling in the air lately, you’re not alone. Our world is in a precarious place. A new U.N.…

Plato’s theory of the soul mate or “split-apart” asserts that initially we humans had four legs, four arms, and a single head with two faces.…

It’s been almost a week since Hurricane Dorian ravaged the Bahamas. At least 45 people are dead, hundreds are missing and some 70,000 are homeless.…

My Virgo mother disliked camping almost as much as she did gardening. The dirt! The bugs! It was more than her fastidious nature could handle.…

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”  –George Eliot

Many years ago, I turned down a job that would have given me an exotic, international life.  …

Melanie Knecht was born with spina bifida and uses a wheelchair – but she still manages to pursue her life-long love for camping.…

An aboriginal tribe had embarked on a long journey. After walking for a few days, they made camp and paused for another couple of days before moving on. When asked why they did this, one of them replied, “We need to stop and rest so that our souls can catch up with our bodies.”…

I have always been a big fan of Liz Gilbert’s. Though I’ve yet to read her latest work, City of Girls, I’ve devoured everything else she has written, from Eat Pray Love to Big Magic.…

I moved from L.A. to Sedona, Arizona in the late Eighties, seeking refuge from big city life. But as I soon discovered, the once-charming little town was fast becoming an overcrowded tourist destination.…