Last African dance class tonight. I haven't done yoga in a week and a half--I had a cold earlier this week, plus I had the late night with Bon Jovi, so I've been sleeping in all week and completely skipping my morning workout program. It felt so good to get moving again, and now I feel all inspired to get up early for yoga tomorrow morning. I ( Read more... )

Full title: The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth about Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage. A collection of memoirs/essays about these topics, and focused specifically on anger. Why is it that, when we come home at the end of a long day at work and our partner offers to cook dinner, we refuse and then stomp around the kitchen ( Read more... )

Yoga # 18 for 2010 ( Read more... )

I just read a really smart blog post about stupid yoga, smart yoga, and life. The writer has met David Williams, the first non-Indian to learn Ashtanga yoga back in the 1970s. He talks about how yoga is about enjoyment, not about competitionI think this is a pretty interesting topic. Yoga originated as a practice for spirituality and stilling ( Read more... )

I'm taking a little class on Rumi at my church, and I'm really enjoying it. Here's a poem we talked about tonight ( Read more... )

Full title: Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door. Truss wrote Eats, Shoots and Leaves, which I loved, and which is really a very well thought out and well researched rant about how people should use correct punctuation and how the lack of correct punctuation both ( Read more... )

I'm not usually one to repost those sorts of gooey email forwards, but this one was kind of nice.

Saint Theresa's PrayerMay today there be peace within ( Read more... )