Before I was a marketer, before I was a yoga instructor, before I was a public relations student, I considered myself a writer. I loved to write. And I still do, though now, after client work and teaching, I often …
Parking tickets are so frustrating. It literally feels like you’re throwing money away, flushing cash down the toilet or lighting dollar bills on fire — only less gratifying in a potlatch kind of way. Parking citations are bogus. While supposedly …
I teach. I practice. I teach. I practice. Yoga is becoming a bigger and bigger part of my life. But what have I been up to? Last month I attempted a 31 in 31 (trying to take 31 classes in …
Communicate early. Communicate often. Right? Well, apparently not… But today’s beef is a little different from the sins of omission and lying I’ve recently touched on. Lately, I’ve been hearing a lot of people arguing against open communication. People still …
AKA Down with 2009 I got back to Boston from Oregon on New Year’s Eve day. Just in time to compare notes with my roommates on what made 2009 the worst year of all time. Between intense breakups, break-ins, and …
With all the plane hours I’ve recently logged, I had the chance to finish reading The Death of Sigmund Freud: Fascism, Psychoanalysis and the Rise of Fundamentalism by Mark Edmundson. Partly a look at Freud’s last two years of life, …
The practice of yoga is all about rewiring the fight or flight response we have in challenging moments. Through breath and mindfulness, you begin to change the situations you’re in, or at least how you’re choosing to perceive them. That’s …
Recently, someone I care about hurt someone else I care about. I’ll keep the details for that novel I’ll write someday. But I at the center of all this hurt was the intention to do no harm and a whole …
When it’s raining out, it’s probably not a good idea to walk in front of moving traffic in the hopes that they’ll stop for you. When it’s raining out. Visibility is bad. Ask yourself, can this driver see me? Can …
I recently learned something shocking about my family–I alluded to bits and pieces of it last week in one of my posts about gratitude, although it’s more complicated than I knew at the time… It got me thinking about how …