The focus for Day #3 of No Impact Week is food.  For us, food is also our main area of consumption in terms of where we actually spend mon...

Here is some more 1970s idealism from my favourite TV show ever, Free to Be You and Me with Marlo Thomas. Today's challenge, trash a...

I miss 1970s idealism.  Did you know that there was a time when people actually believed that peace, love and understanding would make a dif...

Stepping away from the video camera, Vogue Magazine and my scissors, I want to let you know about an experiment I will be participati...

Exploring aging, illness and death through yoga, Bobby and Cissy and Vedic chants. (PS.  Does it look really pixelated to you?  If anyon...

I had a long-winded Mother's Day post half-written about the false duality created by a conspiracy of rich, white men that is also kno...

"I don't care!" Maurice Sendak died today.   Among children's book authors, Sendak's work was consistently a favou...

As Lucy pulled another shirt of mine out of my closet, she said, "You used to wear nice clothes."  Then she gave me the once-over....

Yet another yarn for the shop!  This one is a two-ply, merino, lace weight skein.  Two hundred twenty yards of Widdershin beauty.  I plie...

  If you reflect on death then there is nothing you will need. Always keep death in mind. Once the conviction that everything is imper...

It was a full weekend.   It was a teacher training weekend.  My community class went well.  People played with pasasana without gettin...

Azaleas in the front yard (two weeks ago). Tomorrow I will be teaching an one-hour community class at Sacred Sounds Yoga (163 Bleecker S...

Recently, my friend Patti wrote very movingly about her first experience at a silent retreat .  She is pursuing a course the  Colgate Roches...

At Finn's request, we went to the New York Auto Show.  While I can't say that I understood its attraction, I did enjoy adding to my...

Enjoying these things: I Let Go by Erica J. Schmidt .  When I gave Erica, aka the Exuberant Bodhisattva , a Liebster Award a while back, s...

I love this in so many ways. Here is part 2:

Spring is here - our lilacs are in bloom and Lucy has been training the cats to go outside with a harness.  They mostly creep along clo...

For the past month or so, I have been making a video about old age, illness and death, but you know, with a sense of humour.  It might be a ...

Here is a trick for April Fool's Day - not a joke, just an amazing trick that you, too, can do with your own body. First, Sit on the g...

Look!  New yarn added to my shop!  After I crunched those mega-numbers for my taxes (in TWO countries, I might add), I realized that near...