I am a yoga teacher. Hearing this, you may think, “Oh, she must be so calm, so centered, so…..Zen. Sadly, this is not the case. Some people may go so far as to call me “uptight” or “clenched.” Despite the doubts of these haters well-meaning critics, I strive to achieve inner peace…someday. Although on the [...]
The following letter was actually sent out this year somewhere in the U.S. To the district that sent it out, we salute you. August 29, 2011 Dear Parents: Welcome to the 2011-2012 school year! As the summer draws to a close, we know how close you are to killing one another. By reminding you just [...]
I am not happy with Irene. She completely screwed up our plans this weekend because no one knew when she was planning to visit. And if she arrived while we were in Rhode Island, we might have had to stay and visit with her which would have caused Dave to miss his first day of [...]
Unless you follow me on Twitter and was able to decipher the message I sent on Monday night which read… Feeling very grateful for friends tonight. Especially the ones who know all about brains. @GKAguirre – thank you, the sequel. … you probably have no idea that we had a second neurological “emergency” with Noah [...]
I pretty much live under a rock. I don’t watch the news because it gives me nightmares. We get the newspaper but rarely read it, because ignorance is bliss Phil typically runs over it with the car first thing in the morning. I rarely watch TV, because turning the damn thing on is as about [...]
When I tell people that the boys are at sleep away camp for four weeks this summer their response (in the form of a question, Alec) is inevitably the same: Wow. Do you miss them? And this year my answer is invariably the same: No. I don’t. At all. It is the God’s honest truth [...]
Its 5:45 p.m. on a Friday evening in the Spring. Or perhaps it’s a Wednesday evening in the Fall. I stand alone in the middle of Willow Lane with an open bottle of Pinot Noir and wait. Most of the cars belonging to the neighbors are in the driveways so I know it won’t be [...]
So when I had my colon removed in April, my surgeon said the recovery would take six months. So I did what any masochistic ambitious person would do: I cut it in half. Three months, I said. Three months for healing, and not a day more. In three months I would be good as new, back to [...]
I know I am taking a huge risk by writing this post about a “moment of magic” I have yet to experience. I’m tempting the fates for sure but let’s just say I’m feeling lucky. Here is what is happening: Last week I went to make hotel reservations for my mom, sister and me for [...]
On Saturday Dave took me on the Schuylkill River bike trail for the first time. (Mine, not his.) We jumped on in Conshohocken, road through Valley Forge out to Phoenixville and returned, putting about 25 miles on the odometer and making it the longest ride I have done to date. For Dave, who is training [...]
