Vogue Knitting Early Fall 2012, photo by Rose Callahan My brilliant friend, knitwear d esigner, Zabeth Loisel Weiner, created this lace ...

Two weeks ago, in teacher training, we studied with a terrific teacher, Fran Ubertini .  She is a great combination of high energy and strai...

One of my sisters was here recently for a visit and high on her list of places to go was the 9/11 Memorial.  To be honest, I did not want t...

Over 400 yds of lace weight Shetland beauty spun from a fleece hand painted by Widdershin Woolworks .  Dear Ani (the genius behind Wid...

The focus for the fifth (and for us, final) day of No Impact Week was water.  To be perfectly honest, I didn't make any changes in our ...

Yesterday's area of focus was energy use.  I was out and about, using up my own personal energy so I wasn't able to post anything. ...

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...