Lauren Rosenfeld

Forget about resolutions. Instead: Envision! Intend! Act!

Thumbnail image for Forget about resolutions. Instead: Envision! Intend! Act! by Lauren Rosenfeld January 18, 2012

I’m not a big fan of New Year’s Resolutions. It seems to me that besides being notoriously hard to keep — there’s a lot of negative judgment hidden within them. And I honestly don’t think you have to dig too deep to find the judgment. Usually that judgment is right there, just below the surface, [...]

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The Meal. The Moment. The Memory.

Thumbnail image for The Meal. The Moment. The Memory. by Lauren Rosenfeld December 16, 2011

                                      If you only looked at the raw ingredients, it didn’t really amount to much.  Pancake mix. Water. Food coloring.  But then there were other ingredients as well: creativity, ingenuity, resourcefulness, cooperation, generosity, lovingkindness. James and I [...]

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Be Amazed: No Moment is Ever Truly Ordinary!

Thumbnail image for Be Amazed: No Moment is Ever Truly Ordinary! by Lauren Rosenfeld November 24, 2011

(There is a) statement from the book of Ecclesiastes “There is nothing new under the sun.” And I disagree with that statement! I would say there is nothing stale under the sun, except that human beings become stale. I try not to be stale.  And everything is new. No two moments are alike – and [...]

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How To Be Courageous: What I learned from letting go

Thumbnail image for How To Be Courageous: What I learned from letting go by Lauren Rosenfeld August 20, 2011

My parents collected coffee mugs.  Lots of them.  For decades, everywhere they went in the world, from Topeka, Kansas to the Topkapi Palace they found a mug emblazoned with the name of their point of destination and brought it home, where it sat on a shelf, testament to their lifelong love of travel and their [...]

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How to be Appreciative: Appreciating Appreciation

Thumbnail image for How to be Appreciative: Appreciating Appreciation by Lauren Rosenfeld July 30, 2011

Kids are naturally like miniature lawyers. They are always on the lookout for a good loophole. So (for example) if you were to ask a child what they would ask for if they were granted three wishes they would say something like, “My first wish would be for an X-Box Kinect . . . and [...]

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Be Different: Because in being different, we are all the same

Thumbnail image for Be Different: Because in being different, we are all the same by Lauren Rosenfeld June 29, 2011

I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. – Walt Whitman, Song of Myself Just the other day I was watching a cute human-interest story on the local news. The subject of the report was a local school production [...]

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How To Be Devoted: Wishing won’t make it easier. Practice will

Thumbnail image for How To Be Devoted: Wishing won’t make it easier. Practice will by Lauren Rosenfeld May 25, 2011

I wish . . . I wish I could play the cello. I wish I could do calligraphy. I wish I could rock climb. I wish I could grow an organic garden. I wish I could speak a foreign language. I wish . . . I wish . . . I wish . . . [...]

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A Mother’s Message of Love

Thumbnail image for A Mother’s Message of Love by Lauren Rosenfeld May 4, 2011

Sunday is Mother’s Day. My mother passed away fourteen years ago, in September of 1996. She had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer about eighteen months before. After surgery and treatment, she went into remission for over a year. In that time that she was in remission, I became pregnant with our first child. Her first [...]

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How To Be Real: Be Present to Life’s Sweetness

Thumbnail image for How To Be Real: Be Present to Life’s Sweetness by Lauren Rosenfeld April 13, 2011

I have a bad habit of knitting my brow when I am lost in thought. One day, a few years ago, I was sitting and watching my son playing Legos in the living room. I was gazing absently at his play, but my mind was lost in some tangled problem I was trying to unravel. [...]

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How To Be Beautiful: Let your inner beauty speak through you

Thumbnail image for How To Be Beautiful: Let your inner beauty speak through you by Lauren Rosenfeld March 23, 2011

It’s very easy to get hung up on certain societal standards of beauty. Images on TV and in magazines drive us to go stare at ourselves in mirrors, where we silently castigate ourselves for our imperfections and curse our genes for producing noses that are too big, lips that are too thin, eyes that are [...]

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