f the next 1,00 days looked exactly like yesterday, would you be moving closer or further away from your dreams?
Category: 2025
Am I Running a Cult?
With words, I am guilty. I say words like asana, prana, and namaste. I sometimes obnoxiously and joyfully show off my knowledge of Sanskrit. My longstanding students now know the Sanskrit names of many poses. According to Montell, this is insider language and the most telling hallmark of a cult.
Getting Laid Off
But let’s return to the initial question: What do you do when your life blows up? When you’ve been shivved, knifed in the back, and now you’re lying there, bleeding, asking, What the hell just happened?
Inspired By In March 2025
The problem with me is that I am a terrible photographer. Not only that, but I always want to take a picture at the wrong time, like during yoga class when everyone is in Happy Baby, or of someone who definitely does not want their picture taken. I take these forbidden pictures anyway.
92 Days of Spring
March 20, 2025 Happy first day of spring. Yay. I love spring. Why, I do not know, because Spring around here is cloudy, rainy, cold, and windy. With the occasional snow shower. But there are more birds. And there’s more light. Red Winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) bird perched in grass The red-wing blackbirds are back … Continue reading 92 Days of Spring
Reflecting on Five Years Post-Pandemic
Today is the fifth anniversary of the start of the pandemic. On this day five years ago, I closed the studio. You know how there are those days you will never forget where you were and what you were doing when they happened? 9/11 is one of them for a lot of us. I was … Continue reading Reflecting on Five Years Post-Pandemic
Yoga Only Works If You Do It
So if you’re going to class, spending time, energy, and money learning how to chill out and breathe when you lose your shit, but then don’t deploy those strategies when you really need them, what the hell are you doing? Mastering Downdog? How ridiculous.
Inspired By In February 2025
I’m currently reading Something In The Woods Loves You by Jarod K. Anderson. It’s making me feel kinda the same way I felt when I read Braiding Sweetgrass. Like nature will cure us if we let her. It makes me want to go for long walks in the woods, and not think about all the things.
Why I Resist Moving from WordPress to Substack
But the thing I most dislike about WordPress is all the gatekeeping. They make you create an account to comment, which, no offense, but fuck that. I understand they may be trying to protect me from spam and trolls, but they are also preventing people who might want to respond to something from doing so. And the bots are sneaking in anyway.
Remembering Todd: A Valentine’s Story
On Valentine’s Day, I arrived to find one of those chocolate roses on my desk. You know, the kind with green wire stems, and the foil-covered chocolate rose that you see for sale in every drugstore across America for Valentine’s Day.
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