Yearly Archives: 2012

It's when we are not facing what is true that we get stuck.

If a betrayal falls in the forest and no one knows, does it make a sound? If he records you having sex without your knowledge and you never find out, not when you are thirty, or forty, or say, even on your death bed- does it affect the natural order of things? Have you been betrayed if you know not of it? Does the betrayal still exist?

Elizabeth Bishop knew it. The roaring alongside he takes for granted, and that every so often the world is bound to shake.  I know it. I know how...

Here in London. Just arrived from the countryside of England. More specifically, a quaint little town that looks like you think England should look...

Christmas Eve morning. I taught my last yoga class this morning before I head off to London. Class this morning was holy. It was sacred and...

I posted an essay I wrote called "Waking Up In The Wrong House" where I posited the question: Am I living the right life?...

Recently a friend asked me Do you ever wonder if you're doing it right? Ivan, on his deathbed, asks What if my whole life has...

I get emails daily. Really beautiful, humbling, sometimes Oh My God, this is making me bawl emails. I can't always respond but I always...

Confession: I Have An Eating Disorder. What a brave and beautiful post. Please follow Katie's blog if you aren't already. She is an amazing spirit....

We all need an audience. I have been writing since I could write. The first real book I ever read was Judy Blume's Forever when...

  When I was eight years old I desperately wanted to be a writer. I didn’t know I could be one without a typewriter (yes, I...

A girl came up to me in my second yoga class yesterday morning, shaking. She had started to cry and said that since Friday...