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A Little Spring Meme
This afternoon I walked Boomer to the studio to check the mail and to see if anyone had slid Yoga Challenge money underneath the door. It is still weirdly warm, but it was cloudy and there were a few...
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Spring Decorations
One reason I could never be an elementary school teacher is bulletin boards. All teachers spend a lot of time making their rooms interesting and stimulating environments for their students, but...
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How’s It Going?
I had to see my accountant today for the dreaded doing of the taxes. Hagar wears his hair in a gray crew cut, military-style, that, oddly enough, looks kinda cool on him. He does it stick-straight up...
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Liebster Award
In case you’ve been wondering where I’ve been, I have de-camped over to Virtual Yogarians for the month of April. (Virtual Yogarians is a multi-user blog I set up for people to blog about how the April...
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Poor Me…More Wine
sign This sign hangs in my dining room (right under the one that says: “Live well, Love much, Laugh often”) I bought it for more for the word play on the homonym than because I resonated with the...
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The Best Part of My Day
I actually put my Ipad in my bag this morning on my way to yoga thinking that I needed to keep it with me today to capture “the best part of my day” which is the Photo-A-Day theme for this glorious...
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The Return to Interiority
Even though I get melancholy when the season changes from summer to fall, and even more so when it changes from fall to winter, I have to admit that I really do love the return to interiority. I just...
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Starting Over
For a long time this blog has been a lie. When I started it back in 2009, its purpose, its founding intention, was to be a place where I’d report on inspiring people, places and ideas. I would live my...
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Another Trip Around The Sun
Yesterday was my 60th birthday, and I am here to report that after years of searching, I believe I may have finally hit upon a way of thinking about aging that doesn’t make my insides curdle, and find...
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Strengthening the Love Container
People sometimes break down in yoga class. They fall apart. They shatter. It doesn’t happen a lot, but it happens regularly enough so that I have to be prepared for it. When people shatter, it’s...
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Hatchet: Buried.
During April I had a “secret Metta friend.” I picked one of my yoga challengers and every time I saw her (which was every day) I said to her in my mind: “May you be happy, May you be peaceful, May you...
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Money Don’t Spend Itself
We are in Rochester for the weekend, Eastview Mall-ing it. Love this Mall, even though I hate malls in general. But this one has an Apple Store, an Athleta, a Banana Republic, and other retailers that...
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6 Things That Made Me Happy Today
1. My yoga studio. How crazy is it that I own a yoga studio? Sometimes I just cannot believe it. I walked in there at 7 this morning to do my personal practice, all bleary-eyed and tired, and walked...
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Blessing the Space
There has been a frost warning the last 2 nights. I wore a jacket into the studio this morning and felt happy that I didn’t have any plans to go fishing today with G and her father. (Brrrrr….) (As it...
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The Bed Is Bigger Than The Kitchen
The first day in a new place. Where to get food? How to organize time? What to do first? Who are these others? How to fit in? Mostly, how to fit into this kitchen. Holy closet! (I am writing in...
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“Have You Always Been This Way?”
I assumed (and hoped) he meant friendly, open, interested, and together. He stopped me as I was walking Boomer on campus. He wanted to know how big this place was. He said he had been lured off the...
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Tending Things
We tend gardens. And children. And some of us tend to the sick. Today I tended to my bills, my accounts, my business. I watered the plants, switched the pictures around on the walls, dusted the sills,...
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Date Night: The New Wednesday Ritual
We’ve decided that since I don’t teach on Wednesdays in the summer, that Wednesday will be “date night.” G recruits every weekend, so Saturdays and Sundays will find her in a sack chair with a...
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#brynneandjesse
Dear Brynne and Jesse, G and I wish for you what we have: Someone who sees us as we wish to be seen and not necessarily who we are…yet. Someone who sees our best self, the self we are cultivating, the...
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The 150th Post
We are in Rochester for the weekend. G wanted to check out a catcher, and I tagged along. I really had no idea what recruiting involved, but now I do, and it’s pretty deadly. And boring. And today, hot...
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