Journaling, puzzles, and hunting shark teeth gave me everything the meditation books promised. Then something surprising happened when I sat back down to try the real thing.

Most people who say they want to write blame time. I think it's fear—and three things nobody explains until you've spent years figuring them out yourself.

How do you feel when you walk outside to a bright blue sky? Does it feel good? It does to me.

What if the day is dark, with rainclouds hanging low? Different feeling, right? I like it sometimes if…

My family finds over a thousand shark teeth in a single beach week. Here's when we look, where we look, and the pilot's trick that made me better at it.