Maria Baltazzi, PhD, MFA

Stop Being Available All the Time: Close Your Day With Purpose – Store sign: “Closed for the day. I need a break and a glass of champagne.”

Choose Love Now: One Way to Heal Hurt – “Can we all get along? Can we stop making it horrible for the older people and the kids?” Three days into the 1992…

How Detachment Creates More Ease in Daily Life – A Buddhist saying, “not flattered by praise, not hurt by blame,” is the practice of detachment.

Kisses from the Universe: What Do They Tell You – A new line of painted red hearts appears on the sidewalk in front of the Alcove Cafe in my Los Angeles…

Get More Now: Ask, Act, Accept—Standing five feet three inches, he played fourteen seasons as a point guard on four teams: Muggsy Bogues, the shortest NBA player ever.