The Odyssey of Getting To Nova Scotia did not end at the Brooklyn Tow Pound, alas. Aside:  I tried three ways to get the document I needed...

Sometimes one can ignore one's faults and glide, swan-like, through life.  And sometimes those faults accumulate and come home to roost ...

STARTING FROM SCRATCH August 24–September 25, 2015 Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca College Ithaca, NY Curated by Mara Baldwin and Eleano...

Are we there yet? My project for the exhibition at Ithaca College  is titled  Heaven is the Most Dangerous  Place  of All  and it is qu...

Agni is a Sanskrit word for fire.  We talked about it a lot when we were learning about Ayurveda in relationship to someone's digestion...

Last week, I was upstate at the Monastery for sesshin - my first ever summer sesshin.  What's the big deal?  This is the big deal: stude...

I knew it would happen one day.  It was a day that was always in the future.  But then the future came to my doorstep.  It was the day when...

One topic that came up during the Nashville training (in addition to Ayurveda) was transference and counter transference in the student/teac...

Since returning from Nashville, it has been something of whirlwind.  Getting back into my schedule, birthday celebrations, Canada Day celebr...

Photo courtesy of YATNA/Yoga as Therapy North America Barely had I returned from Ithaca when I had to leave for Nashville and module #3 ...

It is not unusual for me to spend these long road trips in total silence.  If the kids are with me, we usually listen to books on tape for p...

Tomorrow morning - very, very early tomorrow morning - I will head south to Nashville.  I have made this trip two times before and I will...

A friend of mine gave me a large bin-full of vintage textiles that once belonged to her Aunt Electra, who lived in Tennessee and sold them f...

The last Sunday of our Saltonstall residency was given over to a public open house event that included readings by the writers and open stu...

The last few days here have been cold and rainy.  As I am rather a fan of cold and rainy, this has not been a big deal.  In fact, it has be...

One of the first things I noticed when I got here was the birds.  I think I even wrote about how they never stop singing, even through the n...

For the past two weeks I have been flushing the system.  Making whatever came to mind without a lot of discrimination.  Just get it outta t...

Someone - I won't mention names - being of a collaborative nature, suggested that each of the artists and writers here make a page that...

The other day, someone said to me, "You really got lucky with your kids -  they're great." While I couldn't disagree ...