Myrna Leigh Cohn

Do you remember when you were in high school or college and you knew in advance that a paper or report was due on a certain date? I don’t know what your reaction to this kind of expectation is, but I do know mine. I shut down or balk or procrastinate or all three. This [...]

  “Live lightly” We have to cultivate contentment with what we have. We really don’t need much. When you know this, the mind settles down. Cultivate generosity. Delight in giving. Learn to live lightly. In this way, we can begin to transform what is negative into what is positive. This is how we start to [...]

I am not a poet, nor have I ever written a poem… This “piece,” as I choose to call it, came to me late one evening as I sat at my desk staring at my calendar, feeling overwhelmed by the “appointments” and the “to-do’s” scribbled all over the page. Only the four Wednesdays were absent [...]

I am a visual artist, an oil painter, to be exact. I live in a town called Baileys Harbor in Door County in the state of Wisconsin. The population of this county is around 29,000 people. Baileys Harbor has approximately 1,000  full-time residents.  I emphasize “full-time” because Door County is a popular vacation and tourist [...]

“Was it random or was it destiny? And how would I know the difference? More and more it seemed like ‘it was meant to be’ was just another way of saying, ‘it’s what happened.’”

I’ve never been a person who makes New Year’s resolutions, but this year seems different to me in that I seem different to me. In keeping with my internal evolution, this year I resolve to (in no particular order): honor my friends by greeting them with “namaste” instead of the colloquial “hi”; read biographies; increase [...]

“To forgive does not necessarily mean to forget. Sometimes to forget is not wise, but to forgive is wise. And it is at times not easy. It can, in fact, be quite challenging. It will come as no surprise that one of the most difficult people to forgive can be yourself. Yet with patience and [...]

I saw her; I felt her arms around me. I heard her voice… my mother, long gone, comforted me as she never had when she was alive. I had been tossing and turning for most of the night, plagued with dreams of rejection, loss and anxiety. It seemed I had barely escaped from one frame [...]

If you’ve read my bio, you know how much of my meanderings through life I attribute to the “state” of my mind at any given time. According to my theory, evolution from left brain (business consultant, academic) to right brain (Grecian goddess with flowing robes and large palette knives in hand) was a distinct and [...]

…returning home after being long gone. It’s  May 22, 2010, and we are still in Florida – Naples, to be exact.  Our intent was to return to Door County by the first of May. You know the old saying about the “best laid plans?” Wow! We arrived in Naples on the first of February; our previous [...]