Beets, Butter and Mountaintops

“Do you know why you love those bowls?” she asked, as I gathered them to my breast, the large one, pale yellow with cream ...

I have these candles in my fireplace, 5 of them, different heights, that I light in the evenings, and again in the mornings before I sit and...

Photo: author's own. Book: this . Number of black fly bites after this nap: 17. It's funny sometimes, when you realize how utterly o...

For whatever we lose(like a you or a me) it’s always ourselves we find in the sea ~ e.e. cummings

My car was in the shop yesterday. It had been running funky and was kind of scaring me when I drove to my workshop with Patricia Walden on S...

The floor needs sweeping. The dishes need putting away. The coffee needs prepping. The clothes need setting out. The dishwasher needs loadin...

(A giant beet next to a normal lemon. The beet was about the size of a baby's head.) I had a little meeting with Future Me today. She...

I'm sitting here on a gray Sunday afternoon, there are birds chirping outside, I just (mindfully) ate some poached chicken with a glass ...

in order to eat burgers like this. In order to do so much yoga that your hands start to show it in order to see all the cherry trees that li...

...the people who annoy me horribly the first time I encounter them, end up being really cool. Like the heavy breathers from my yoga class o...

So, here's how my experiment with intuitive/mindful eating went on Tuesday. Intuitive is the "eat what your body wants when you wan...

I have wonderful yoga teachers - Fay, Mary Alice, Kate, Nikki, Tamara. They are wonderfully trained and thoughtful teachers and I learn so m...

Breakfast was served at the kitchen table, sans computer, but with my book. Baby steps people. I did pause and become aware of my raisin toa...

While this post was inspired by one of my classmates who uses a once light blue mat, which is now streaked with brown dirt streaks, I'm ...

2:15 The Mindful Banana. Did some cleaning and then sat to read more of Women, Food and God. Noticed myself getting hungry. Waiting a bit to...

In which I live blog my Intuitive eating experiment. Morning, coffee because I love it and it brings me joy. After about an hour I had a sli...

I recently started reading Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything by Geneen Roth. It's a bit similar to the other ...

Saturday and Sunday classes are usually the hardest days. Saturday because it's level 2 with a very good teacher, and because I'm us...

Today's class was so lovely. Some nice strong vinyasas to start with. I finally realized that if I dig in with the tips of my fingers I ...

My lululemon groove pants are getting too big. I wash them in hot water and put them in the dryer until the cows come home, but all Saturday...

I put my weight into the Weight Watchers online tracker this morning and was rewarded with a bouncing star which meant that I had lost 15 po...

I went to visit my dad yesterday up in Maine. He lives in a little cabin in the woods and my sister and her 2 children and I went to see him...

(The videos look stretchy, but when you hit play they will look normal) Sometimes I do this now. I figured this out last weekend. And when I...

So I've been walking like crazy this week. I walked 5 miles yesterday. I just kept going. And every so often I felt like running. So I...

I seem to have developed a little habit. I don't want to jinx it but it appears that I go for a morning walk every morning at 7 (2 miles...

Enough people in the room so the energy was good, but not crowded. Lights down. Gaura Vani and his band in the front. Harmonium. Drum. Ch...

That I can walk around the curve of the harbor to meet friends for drinks, Friends who make me laugh and whom I make laugh, Pomegranate mar...

Sometimes I'm riddled with anxiety. I could say it was brought on by this or that, but really it lives in my brain along with joy and ca...

I'm handing out gold stars today. Just to myself since I'm the only one here, but feel free to award yourself some. One for making m...

So I'm doing that thing again where I think "there's too much around the middle here, it's uncomfortable" and I start ...

It's funny, once I started writing outside of this blog, I stopped writing here. Maybe this was my little haven to write in when I thoug...

This was my entry way before. A shelf with shoes, since my shoes live by the door, and a basket for hats and gloves, and a thing on top for ...

From every little corner the message is coming "keep writing." From other people comes the message "don't stop." And...

I walk now. Two miles this morning. 3.7 this afternoon. By the beach, through the village, under the pines, around the Common, past the peop...

Here is what I can choose from this weekend, the first in many during which I am not putting things into boxes, taking things out of boxes, ...

For a long time, I settled. I don't know why. Maybe I was too tired to fight for what I wanted. Maybe I thought I had to fight for what ...

I am truly home. In beautiful space. In a beautiful town. And at long last with the ocean once again 50 feet from my door. I grew up above ...

It's beginning to look at lot like a home! Movers came on Tuesday and moved me into my new home. Helper Mouse came and helped me unpack....

I found myself in Cambridge yesterday afternoon after lunch with a couple of hour to kill so I decided to walk around for a while. I had on ...

I'm afraid my new apartment doesn't have enough closets to hold my winter clothes and linens and suitcases. I don't know where I...

It's Wednesday, a longer weekend awaits (which I just realized), my stuff is all packed for my move and my mind once again turns north a...

When I was in Junior High, we had to memorize a poem and recite it in front of the class. I, of course, chose the one that Ponyboy had read ...

Peakbagger (n): A mountain climber whose principal goal is the attainment of a summit, or a specific set of summits. Bag : Slang, To fail...