We are all special. A few days before Christmas, I had an attack of TMJ.  I forget what those letters stand for (look it up, if you must...

Sparkly alpaca. ...and for another thing: The Raspberry couch.

Not going to Italy, what did we do? Part of my deal to myself was to use my time not in Italy as wisely as I could.  This means that I hav...

Buon Giorno!  Or, as we like to say in Sunnyside, hello! Wait?  What? The week before leaving for Rome, I was up at the Monastery in a w...

Yesterday, I went to see an exhibition of paintings, drawings and etching by Giorgio Morandi at David Zwirner Gallery in Chelsea.  It was s...

You know how you can be thinking something and thinking that something for a long time and it gets all fixed in your head and you start to b...

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...