There's more than one way to say good-bye! One more module to go before we become certified yoga therapists!  Things are getting rea...

Hello. It is hot in Nashville.  The temperature has been hovering the mid-90s since we arrived for the fifth of six modules of our yoga ...

Everything is Waiting for You Your great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone. As if life were a progressive an...

A few months ago, I was telling my Zen teacher about how the new cat at the Monastery ran towards me and practically leapt into my arms.  He...

Things have been winding up and settling down. There have been many sleepless nights as I worried about some of the choices my two teenage...

Satisfied , 2014.  Porcelain and wash, 5" x 12" Coreopsis , 2016.  Organic matter, size varies. Graduate (Lucy and Wen...

Eight AM through the eyes of a 19 yo. Sometimes the truth of impermanence is easy to forget and sometimes it insists on being right ...

How to make the world a better - and funnier - place for 97 years. My former father-in-law, James W. Allen, died on Monday night at the ...

Don't be shy.

Earlier this week, we had the floors refinished in our downstairs rooms.  The night before (it was Mother's Day - Lucy said, "s...

(Sorry - not the Beyonce kind of lemonade.  No Becky's.  No nice hair.) Studio Love, condensed version After I lost my studio, I...

Not my hair. When things are not going so well (meaning, not going the way I want them to go), everything seems so complicated.  Yesterd...

When my dead friend came to me, she said, “This is the body that I always wanted!” How foolish we are - scrambling around - afra...

Inverness, Cape Breton, NS. Are you jealous of the ocean's generosity? Why would you refuse to give this love to anyone? ...

May I direct your attention to Amanda Green ?  She also is enrolled in the YATNA yoga therapy training.  I read her blog before that trainin...

The Earth is Calling and She Wants You Back How the Earth created you in the first place: Maybe there was some wine - Grapes ...

I want to talk to you about power. What I mean is: That first robin to sing just before dawn. A spring breeze across your che...

What the heck? After losing my studio to gentrification in Long Island City, I developed the brilliant scheme to buy a fixer-upper in Ul...

Whoo-whoo Recently, I started working with Elizabeth Cunningham-Bossart , who is the Ayurvedic doctor who lead our third module of yoga ...

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is ...