I’ve decided to give myself a little break. No dissertation work, or even thoughts about the dissertation. A dissertation vacation you might say. Why? Because I don’t want to end up in the hospital again, away from my family. Because I don’t want to have a miserable year, caught in a slump that has me […]
Read MoreA few weekends ago, when the kids had just left for the East Coast, the hubs and I went to a street fair in the neighborhood. There was a chiropractor there, giving out free exams. Or so he said. It was really free in the sense of “let me sit you down and talk to […]
Read MoreWow, it’s been a minute since I’ve updated this blog. Not for lack of things going on, though. Probably the biggest issue with keeping it up is time, and since I’ve had a full-time job this summer, time has been at such a premium. This is the first full-time job I’ve had in four years, […]
Read MoreYeah, I think it does 🙂 Although I’d planned today to be different, due to some exigent circumstances, it was just like any other day. But different. Hubby co-oped for me this morning so I could study for the exam I need to take tomorrow. Then we (hubby and I) had lunch at the […]
Read MoreAs 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 […]
Read MoreSinus storm here. Neti pot in, flowing out. And legs up the wall. A haiku is an un-rhymed verse genre. In Japanese, haiku has five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, and five again in the third – the two sevens at the end (they count sounds, not strictly syllables, however, […]
Read MoreI would have been a yoga teacher. I almost was in this life. It’s a long story, and I’m bone tired. So I’m not going to tell it. It’s interesting and tragic and sad and hopeful and honest. But I’ll say this: yoga is the only thing that has consistently kept me off the ledge. […]
Read MoreI’ve added a “Yogi Tea Wisdom” widget in my sidebar. I drink Yogi Tea everyday, specifically Nursing Mother’s Tea. It has some herbs that are known to maintain and increase a breastfeeding mother’s milk supply, and has been particularly helpful since my daughter started day care and I have to pump during the day. But […]
Read Moresaturday morning i went to mount madonna center to take a 2-hour yoga, pranayama and meditation class. i left palo alto at 6:30am for the 7:30am class. there is something about getting up before dawn and watching the sun rise, especially here. there was only about 45 minutes of asana, but the rest made up […]
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