For a couple of weeks, I have had the thought that I need to post something here.  And then I would check in on myself and realize that I ha...

Maybe it was some pushback after my big (and yet unfinished) Konmari clean-out.  Or maybe it was just because I haven't actually bough...

For the past three weeks, I have been teaching yoga at the Manhattan Detention Complex (yes, the same one that used to be called the Bernar...

She longed to travel. She longed to go back and live in a convent. She wanted to die. And she wanted to live in Paris.   Gustave Flauber...

My camera cable has arrived but, as is usually the state of things, I don't really feel like talking about the show in Nova Scotia right...

When I wrote that I had sorted through my books in my last post, I was not being 100% honest.  I hadn't sorted through my knitting/sewin...

While waiting for my camera cable to arrive, I have not been idle.  Yes, teaching yoga (two new classes in Williamsburg starting at the end ...

Still waiting on my camera cable so I can download the photographs of the installation in Inverness.  Meanwhile, The Ithacan, the student ne...

 The exhibition is installed and open.  I have many pictures but they need to be downloaded and made pretty.  Meanwhile, here are some of ...

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...