Brian La Doone is a musher—a sled dog racer—in far northern Canada, which is polar bear country.

Psychologist David Elkind, in his book The Power of Play, identifies several characteristics of play, including...

Last year my therapist started asking me at every visit, “You having any fun?”

The innocent mistake that keeps us caught in our own particular style of ignorance, unkindness, and shut-downness is that we are never encouraged to see clearly what is, with gentleness.

I’ve been learning about improv for about six years now.

“Do what you love,” the saying goes, “and you’ll never work a day in your life.”

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I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear...

My first memory of what the first of our UU Sources calls “transcending mystery and wonder” is an experience I had when I was quite little, maybe five or six years old.

And truly, I reiterate, . . nothing's small!