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
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
Breaking and Mending on the Path to Wholehearted Love
Oh 2020. I wish I could say you’ve been on fire and that all my #blackgirlmagic is making the unfathomable happen, but January of this new year was pretty sobering, READ MORE
A Time to Pause
The winter holidays and the end of the year always demand a shift in my focus. They demand a more inward than outward facing gaze, a more grateful attitude than READ MORE
Yoga, Thunder Thighs and the Transformative Power of Self-Love
When I first started practicing yoga 20 years ago in Oakland, my boyfriend at the time never tired of watching me on my purple Gaiam mat on the living room READ MORE
My Body is a Vessel for Truth
Fragmented Beginnings I was an unusually shy child when I was small. Heightened fears about expressing myself to people in particular settings would sneak up from out of nowhere and READ MORE
Embodying Love: An Interview with Yoga Teacher Lauren Solomon
I frequently have the pleasure of sitting down to revelatory discussions with Lauren Solomon, friend and fellow yoga teacher, because we have been reading about and talking about love in READ MORE
Love Lessons Learned in the Company of Women
A School For Womanly Arts and a Series of Mini-Lessons on Womanly Love Gathering with women is essentially a love fest. Not for all women, but it has always been READ MORE
Love Stories 2: Mindful Listening: An Antidote to Anxiety in an Increasingly Polarized World
This week was the first in many years when I had a sleepless night. I woke from sleep in a fit of anxiety and spent the remaining three hours until READ MORE