In the end, they got me with the tote bag. Back when I fled the publishing industry, I went through a period of radical cleansing of all ties with the publications I used to regularly consume for work (and sometimes for pleasure). This included Theread more

What’s your love language? Until very recently, I believed mine was “words of affirmation.” Maybe it was because I’m a word person—a reader, a writer, someone who expresses what’s in her mind most directly, thoroughly, and sincerely in writing. But as we come into theread more

If you’re reading this at the approximate date/time it’s been posted (Monday, November 4, 2024), it’s a slightly brighter morning, and maybe you feel a bit more rested. No one seems to remember these aspects of falling back into daylight savings time, which went intoread more

we will wear new bones again. we will leave these rainy days, break out through another mouth into sun and honey time. worlds buzz over us like bees, we be splendid in new bones. other people think they know how long life is how strongread more

Well now really when we go back into falling in love. And say, it’s crazy. Falling. You see? We don’t say “rising into love”. There is in it, the idea of the fall. And it goes back, as a matter of fact, to extremely fundamentalread more

A lover knows only humility, he has no choice… —Rumi Whenever I travel, I set out with the goal of returning with fewer things, a lighter bag, than when I left. Sometimes it’s the food that I packed to eat on the way or while away,read more

Thursday, September 19 – Saturday, September 28 I don’t do cleanses. And yet, my body—the miraculous thing that it is—is always cleansing all on its own, through the natural processes of detoxification and digestion it’s been designed to do to stay alive. In Ayurveda, facilitating theread more

Growing up as a dancer, I always wondered what masochistic individual decided to put battements at the end of the ballet barre sequence. After fatiguing all of my leg muscles through endless pliés and tendus and other warm-up exercises, now you wanted me to kickread more

You are the future, the immense morning sky turning red over the prairies of eternity. You are the rooster-crow after the night of time, the dew, the early devotions, and the Daughter, the Guest, the Ancient Mother, and Death. You are the shape that changesread more

June 18-22, 2024 *Save 10% when you register by June 10* Register I don’t do cleanses. And yet, my body—the miraculous thing that it is—is always cleansing all on its own, through the natural processes of detoxification and digestion it’s been designed to do toread more