Yoga off the mat

I did an hour of yin yoga over the weekend. If you’re not familiar, yin yoga is a slower yoga, one in which you put your body into what are considered restorative poses. Then, you just stay there… Because it’s not the power yoga that we tend to associate with the...

introducing Death + Stuff

I’ve had a tingling of an idea for some years now… A turning of my coaching practice toward a more overt recognizing of the reality of our mortality and how that reality can clarify what we each mean, as individuals, by our Life Well Lived, our unique version of...

Rediscovering ritual

This week will find many a Jewish person celebrating Pesach, or Passover, if you please. It’s the annual recitation of the story of Exodus, the fleeing of enslavement in Egypt, a story that was also inspiration for the enslaved Africans in the States as they looked...

Early spring and the cycle of life

In our front window is a wooden case with two shelves and two grow lights: Theresa’s spring rig. One tray is covered in the adorable shoots of baby plants, some peppers, mostly tomatoes, more than we’ll know what to do with and fewer than we’ll want. Our forsythia are...

They used to say death and taxes…

You don’t have to skim too many lists of conversation-stirring questions before you run into one that goes something like, “If you could know the exact date of your death, would you choose to know?” In my experience, a limited few will answer yes and their explanation...

A Play-Along Adventure in Writing

On Saturday, I got to speak to the good people of the Roanoke Regional Writers Conference for what might have been the 11th or 12th time. To those of you who joined me to explore writers block, I say: Welcome to The Bigger Badder Crew – we’ve been holding space for...

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