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Noelle and I walked this afternoon instead of working out. Sunlight reflected relentlessly off of the muddy brown river, which still runs high and dark from Tuesday’s downpour and subsequent [...]

Yesterday I experienced a particularly restful meditation session before beginning my morning tasks. Mia and I are taking a Lojong, or mind training, class in the city and began our studies this [...]

Cedar Mae has a new puppy. “Well, technically, he’s supposed to be mine. So I guess I’m the one in charge of training him,” she says, peering up at me from the floor where she is sprawled out [...]

Everything moves slower today, even my breathing. I move with an unshakeable awareness of my surroundings. It is as if I am watching myself from some hidden, tiny pedestal inside my gut, where a [...]

I eat to “fill” my emptiness. This has happened before, but with myriad birthday treats around the house, I am officially crossing into dangerous territory. To make things worse, the gym is [...]

I haven’t seen Kim, my friend and manager of the coffeehouse, since before Thanksgiving, so I mentally prepare myself before getting out of the car: she is now eight months pregnant and her [...]

Mia comes early and is a Godsend. She helps hang white lights and assures me that even though the chairs are old mountain rockers, they will suffice. We decide strategic locations for the wine [...]

The school I used to teach at is a boarding school for teens with family style houses and a Montessori-like educational philosophy. Tonight, I steered my car along the bumpy gravel road up to one [...]

Continued from yesterday… We both smiled and chuckled a little and I could tell she was not intending to be critical. “Look,” she said, “I raised a daughter on my own and we’re so enmeshed it’s [...]

After three weeks of waiting, this morning was my thirty-minute herbology consultation with Cissy, one of the most respected Chinese medicine specialists in the region. I discovered her by way of [...]