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It was my birthday last Monday. I had meant to write a blog post about it. It was such a lovely day. Pete gave me a Trevor Baylis Eco Media Player. If you don’t know what one of those is, it’s like an iPod, just way, way cooler. It’s bigger than an iPod, has more [...]

I approached the day with butterflies in my stomach, but felt comfortable within half an hour of being there. It was my first time on retreat. It was a teaching retreat, and we learned about insight meditation (Vipassana). I’ve been trying out insight meditation over the past few months, so this has given me a [...]

My beautiful assistant Piper is ready to pick the winner of our giveaway of a copy of MJ Rose’s The Reincarnationist. The names have been put into the hat. Here she is having a good feel around. Making sure the names have been well mixed up. She’s picked a winner. Hooray! Who is the winner, [...]

MJ Rose, author of The Reincarnationist and the blog post below, has kindly offered a copy of her new book as a giveaway prize to one Zen Housewife reader. If you’d like your name in the hat for the draw, please email me at tracy[at]zenhousewife[dot]com (replacing [at] with @ and [dot] with .) by the [...]

This is a guest post by author MJ Rose. When I was three years old, I told my great grandfather things about his childhood in Russia that there was simply no way I could have known. He became convinced I was a reincarnation of someone in his past. And over time, after more incidents, my [...]

This is the fourth Thich Nhat Hanh book that I’ve read. I’m very taken with his writing style and find it easy to read and understand. He keeps it very simple, with an almost childlike simplicity, and consequently his story telling flows easily and is very uncomplicated. Old Path, White Clouds is the life story [...]

“Have you ever wanted to unplug from the rat race and free yourself?” asks Nick Rosen in his new book How to live off-grid. In it he provides not only the inspiration to get off the beaten track and find your own space, he also provides countless resources to help you do just what he [...]