Apr 7, 2013 | Blog
About a year and a half ago my friend Rene asked me to write her obituary. While I had all the notes, and was able to visit her a week before she died, I still felt like it was really bad luck to finish it before her life was complete. After she died Monday evening, I...Apr 5, 2013 | Blog
If you are heading out for a walk on the beach bundle up. There’s a brisk north wind and it’s in the twenties– but oh, the sunshine and the snowy mountains make this time of year so beautiful! My neighbor has been cleaning out her greenhouse, and...Apr 4, 2013 | Blog
The yoga spring cleanse continues. I feel better today and am only on one cup of half de-caf. My question is, after hearty crock pot beans and rice last night and stewed prunes, apricots and fresh ginger this morning, should I really go to noon yoga? Apr 3, 2013 | Blog
It’s a busy sad day– writing my friend Rene’s obituary. She died Monday night at home in Juneau of breast cancer. One of her last letters said she was living in hope and acceptance. That’s seems to me to be the best way to face life– no...Apr 2, 2013 | Blog
Coconut oil– who knew? I’m part of a yoga spring cleanse — we are eating whole foods only, and no sugar, wheat, caffeine, alcohol or dairy and doing yoga daily- I know it’s kind of like Lent, but later, but after the Easter ham and candy...Mar 31, 2013 | Blog
From Sara Miles’ gracious and funny Christian memoir, Take This Bread : “It may seem crazy, at this point in history, to assert that any religion– much less Christianity, the religion of our contemporary empire, of the powerful and intolerant–...