The summer after I graduated from college my sister and I were in a Goodwill store looking for clothes and books when I discovered two old fashioned suitcases. One is an army suitcase, metal and gray; the other is a fancy hard suitcase that I imagined Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald throwing on some Paris-bound European …
Uh huh, you know what I’m talking about. The top item on your to-do list every morning that you secretly hope you can find a way out of accomplishing. With me it doesn’t even have to be a hard task. Sometimes it is an embarrassingly small task but I push it to the side. This …
In the last two weeks spring has sprung and the world has emerged from hibernation. The trees are all laden with heavy buds or bursts of green. Daffodils are trumpeting, tulips are eagerly awaiting their moment and irises are beginning their spiralic ascent. It is a magnificent time to be alive and to be a …
About six years ago I decided that surrender was my number one lesson to learn. Growing up I had been a fighter. Always pushing, fighting, struggling to get what I wanted and needed. After I fell in love a few times and made some significant friendships I realized that the best things in life usually …
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The grass is inevitably greener on the other side; if we are too thin we want to be curvy, if we are too curvy we want to be beanpoles. There is a certain amount of longing, no not exactly longing, but assuming that the other way would be easier. I don’t remember exactly when I …
These last few years I’ve been defining and redefining comfort. Truth be told I’m a comfort lush. If someone were to count how many times I use the word comfortable in a yoga class they wouldn’t be able to participate in the class, they would be too busy counting. I am all about comfort. When …
As a child growing up I never felt as much peer pressure as a lot of my friends. I didn’t feel the need to dress like everyone else, party with the popular crowd or drink or do drugs. I never felt compelled to do anything just because other people were doing something. As an adult …
One of the best perks of Chinese Medicine treatments is an increase in appetite. But when I tell my patients this some of them look at me in dread and beg me not to increase their appetite. They are afraid they will gain weight if I increase their appetite. I am here today to debunk …
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I’m certainly not a green thumb, but I am a plant person. In our very sunny apartment my houseplants are the happiest they have ever been. I have a continuously blooming African violet that astonishes me after years of being flowerless. I have a rapidly spindling ivy that is the first I’ve kept alive since …
I recently discovered this article about hunger. Initially I was really excited because it was talking about hunger in a positive way, but it just started to disappoint me after a while, so I decided to take matters into my own hands and talk about hunger. The most important thing you need to know is you …
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