Be Light. Feel Light. A Homegrown Yoga Lesson on Cape Cod.
When I first started doing yoga at the age of 16 in my hometown on Cape Cod, there were no yoga studios. They didn’t exist... (read more)
Schooled by Mother Nature
‘Tis the season of getting schooled by Mother Nature… Take Saturday night, for example. I arrived home from a delightfully kooky vegan Friendsgiving with yoga... (read more)
I’m Doing It All Wrong
I get it. I’m a yoga person, and I reveal parts of myself in a public forum via social media and on this website. Right... (read more)
Quote: When You Think of Your Life…
When you think of your life as an open field… and a great turmoil makes you feel as though this field, once filled and alive,... (read more)
My Latest Video for Runner’s World
Being self-employed can be a solitary type of existence. Ditto being a writer, which is well-documented and why so many of the great ones are... (read more)
Salt of the Earth
I’m a bit of a sucker for old expressions, and salt of the earth is one of my favorites. English is my mother’s second language. Ditto... (read more)
This is For You, Alissa Bigelow.
A bright light has gone out. These words are used in the movie Shakespeare in Love, a riff on a famous line in Shakespeare’s play, Othello.... (read more)
Teaching Yoga at Fenway Park: That Happened.
Two weeks have passed since I taught the first-ever yoga class at Fenway Park, and I still have to remind myself: That Happened. There’s a... (read more)
Keep Swimming
My friend, Priscilla Warner, once said of finding her true love, Jimmy, that it was like “two fish swimming toward the light” when they met.... (read more)
Big Week & Only Wednesday: Teaching at Fenway Park, Seeing a Marathon Hero, & Launching Runner’s World Video
Wow. This week has been packed with excitement and firsts, and it’s only Wednesday. On Monday night, I taught the first ever yoga class at... (read more)
Weekend Bliss
“It’s about following your bliss, losing it, and finding it again.” -Natalie Chapman Last weekend, I went surfing for the first time (in the freezing... (read more)
My Half-Assed Meditation
My morning meditation was fairly half-assed. I didn’t ride my bike at sunrise to my preferred Buddhist center in Cambridge, over the Mass Ave. bridge... (read more)
Thich Nhat Hanh in Boston; Mindfulness Makes Way for Love
The first time I was exposed to well-known Buddhist monk, peace activist, and author Thich Nhat Hanh, who visited Boston over the weekend, was when... (read more)
Road Trip to Runner’s World & VIA Marathon (PHOTOS!)
It’s absurdly cliche to ask, but is time accelerating? The older I get, the more I think so. Take this week, for example. One moment,... (read more)
Dude, Where’s My Car?
My apologies for a quiet week of blogging. I’m closing in on my book deadline, or, rather, my book deadline is closing in on me,... (read more)
