It’s So Dark

November 2, 2020.Reading time 7 minutes.

I learned something new today. Apparently, I hate Standard Time. I’m not sure about everyone else, but I’d always thought I hated “Daylight Savings Time.” That unenviable morning in early November that gives us an extra hour of sleep but extra waking hours of darkness. But that moment is not when Daylight Savings Time begins. […]

Year in Pics

January 2, 2013.Reading time less than 1 minute.

birds going at a slice in the costco parking lot

the om in me

February 28, 2011.Reading time 6 minutes.

As I mentioned last week, if I wasn’t doing what I’m doing now, I imagine I would be a yoga teacher, full-time. I started routinely practicing yoga in 2003. My best friend had been going to a beautiful studio in Germantown (a neighborhood in Philly right next to the one we’d grown up in) and […]

i don’t live for my kids

February 22, 2011.Reading time 8 minutes.

A couple of days ago, when I started my 25 to 30 countdown, Lilian asked if having children has impacted my will to live. The most simple and direct answer is no. I don’t answer this question lightly; I’ve actually thought about it a lot. Since having children, a lot about how I live my […]

Sing-a-long

February 21, 2011.Reading time 8 minutes.

You don’t know me if you don’t know I sing. Like, if you know me, but you didn’t know that singing is a major part of my life, then you really don’t know me. Honestly, to me it sounds really trite – I’m a “singer.” A “vocalist.” But I make music with my voice – […]