In the early 2000’s, David became obsessed with cooking. After identifying as a mostly vegetarian for most of my adult life, I feel down deep in his hole of braised pork and grilled mahi-mahi, chocolate trifles and pasta puttanesca. Teaching yoga and meditation was just a side-hustle at the time; I threw every cent I […]
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. ~T.S. Eliot It’s my third day at the beach and I rise early, eager to start my walk before anyone else in the house stirs. […]
They say that there are two types of people: those who see the figurative glass as half empty and others who see it as half full. I know a gal who sees the wrong amount of water, regardless of whether it’s spilling over or down to the dregs. She sees the glass as chipped, smudged, […]
In the twenty years I’ve lived on Quisenberry Lane, I’ve walked the same three-mile loop over 5,000 times. I call it The Circle. Up the lane, cross the highway, turn right on Old Boonesboro Road. Climb the hill to the cemetery, trace the interior wall, and loop back home. In every season, in every kind […]
Scritch scritch scritch!!! I look up from my laptop and sigh. Here we go again. This is the umpteenth starling that has flown down our chimney and gotten stuck in the yoga studio fireplace. I can hear the poor guy banging about inside the stove, chattering in panic. This bird retrieval sequence is standard by […]
There are no foolish questions, and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions. ~Charles Proteus Steinmetz The trickster spider Anansi wanted to own all the knowledge in existence. He begged the Sun God to bestow the wisdom of the cosmos upon him. The Sun God felt sorry for humans and decided […]
