The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering. ~Bruce Lee Immortality has always been big business. The ancient Egyptians mummified their kings as a way to preserve the physical body for the future; they regarded death as a temporary interruption and believed enlightened souls would reanimate their corpses. The first emperor of China, Qin Shi […]
I was sick most of the winter and spent a lot of time on the couch. I was too tired to read; every time I would pick up my book, I would fall asleep after two pages. I tried Netflix, but couldn’t find anything interesting to watch. I lacked the emotional bandwidth to deal with […]
I was sitting in the shower crying at the hopelessness of it all. Since I hadn’t showered in three days, I really needed to shampoo my hair. But the shampoo bottle seemed so far away that I just cried instead. Maybe I should back up. This particular cry – one of many that week – […]
We brought our dog Barkley to his forever home when he was three months old. We bought him a potty bell, which is a bell that the dog rings when he needs to go out. To help him understand the process, you pick him up and hold him close to the bell. “Touch,” you […]
I was dusting the bookshelves in the yoga studio, when a book slipped from its resting place and fell at my feet. When something like that happens, I always take the book down, open to a random page, then read the paragraph in the middle to bottom of the right page. Call it a […]
I thought I saw Merlin scamper across the kitchen floor this morning and I started crying. Mostly because she’s been dead for three years. Merlin was the haughtiest and most beautiful cat that ever lived. I didn’t own Merlin; she owned me. Black as night, with huge green eyes speckled with gold, two granny smith […]
