Mid-life Crisis or Mid-life Rebirth?
This middle adulthood moment that I’m having has got me extra full of reflections in 2024, and somehow they do not possess the “crisis” quality that many of our cultural READ MORE
When Talking Is No Longer Enough
Shortly after the pandemic began, I found myself taking longer walks than ever through New York City. On these walks, I craved rich storytelling that could transport me far from READ MORE
Being Seen Without The Masks We’ve Lived In
Today I taught my 3rd graders without a mask for the first time since March 2019. It was a revelation. After a tumultuous two years of changing COVID restrictions, the READ MORE
The Things and People That Got Me Through 2020 and 2021 – part 1
My Health Educator Team Got Me Through What does it really mean to be a team? To wear matching sun hats, jerseys, jeans, and Birkenstocks coincidentally like the two on READ MORE
2021: Holding the Tension of “Both/And” as We Celebrate the New Year
Happy New Year, and welcome to my new blog and website! As much as I hope to kiss 2020 goodbye for good, I will hold fast to the important lessons READ MORE
America Delivered: Now Let’s Ensure That The Infant Will Thrive
For months now, I have had memories surface from a time gone by. A time during which my life in a privileged/lucky bubble of naïveté was made plain, and a READ MORE
On Her Own Birthday: America’s Pregnant and It’s Time to Deliver
How much can really happen in one year of our lives? They say that when our ancestors were cave people, the amount that a human being cognitively processed in their READ MORE
Thoughts on Yoga’s Relationship to Racism & Democracy
Don’t Be Fooled: Here’s the Truth About Yoga You might look at the above photo and think you’re seeing “yoga.” You’re not. Yoga is actually a concept meaning “union.” It READ MORE
Quarantine Chronicles: Walking to Keep from Dying
Since COVID-19 quarantine began, I have taken a long walk everyday. I walk from my apartment in Harlem along the Hudson River for a minimum 4.4 mile loop. I walk READ MORE
Quarantine Chronicles
Self and Community Care in the Age of a Pandemic It feels as like an eternity has past since I last wrote a post. Like most of you, I have spent READ MORE