Tranquility Du Jour

Bonjour. Welcome to the 341st edition of Tranquility du Jour with Annie Mahon. Be inspired to bring mindfulness into your every day through eating, speaking, and living.     Featured Guest: Annie Mahon grew up in Macomb County, a blue-collar suburb of Detroit, during the 60s and 70s.  Starting in junior high school, she spent her lunch money for “spiritual” pursuits purchased for $1 in the smoking area.  At the University of Michigan she continued her spiritual quest in sorority life, leading to excessive alcohol use, an eating disorder, and academic probation.  She interspersed poetry, journaling, and sleeping too much with reading about Buddhism and occasional attempts at meditation. All of this somehow resulted in a graduating with a master’s degree in Computer Science, a move to DC, and a brief stint in the quintessential office place, IBM, before moving to an exciting but soul-killing position in sales at Oracle.  During her first months in DC, where she reverse commuted an hour from city to suburbs, An