May is my favorite month. Maybe because it is my birthday month, I always feel a sense of renewal in May, as well as an acknowledgment of...

Sorting through photos from the past couple years I found so many images of my yoga mat unrolled in various outdoor locales (in this...

Summer (or, earth season) ended with a beautiful waning gibbous moon (almost full!), and here in Austin autumn-- also known as air...

Everyone appreciates the absurdity of a good oxymoron (Hell's Angels; jumbo shrimp). Sometimes, more subtle. In Tarot, the Death card...

You noticed the empty space? That's where the heart shaped rock with the speckled back rested for a moment.

These were among the first words uttered to me by my dear not-yet-but-about to-be-friend Nathan when I rolled into his city 25 years ago....

Our weather this spring has been hard to pin down. The lush green foliage and happy fireflies are lovely, but the constant predictions...

These ubiquitous humble dots of yellow only disappeared from the park for a month or so over the winter. Even then, they weren't...

We planted five vines of lush jasmine around our backyard last spring. In the midst of pandemic, the local nursery allowed limited...

four of us met in Shipe Park, with excitement and trepidation. Annette, Clayton, Paula and me. It felt transgressive in the best way. ...

When my now 13 year-old son was little we'd take walks in late February/early March looking for "signs of spring". His face would fill...

85 degrees last Tuesday in Austin. The crazy freeze may have contributed to keeping the city weird but it didn't make everything okay;...

It was 8 degrees Fahrenheit here in Austin, TX on Monday. Our neighborhood lost power at 2am during a freakish snowstorm. It's Wednesday...

My Slavic grandmother Veronika grew up poor. She walked miles to school on cold mornings across frozen farmland outside Bratislava with...

In the other room, my architect boyfriend is on a call. For an hour he's been patiently, intently discussing how to work a project...

Today is the new moon, and the last solar eclipse of 2020. Usually I sleep quite well on new moon eves, but last night I didn't. I was...

Even with the weather balmy, the leaves fall. I love November for that. The way the limbs reveal the bare majesty of their structure....

Pema Chodron received advice from a mentor about mindfulness: At teatime, just drink tea. Like teatime, yoga provides opportunity to...

In another lifetime, (pre-pandemic, pre- a lots of new life circumstances!) I loved throwing dinner parties. Sure I'm an introvert, but...

beyond labels, the essential you. No descriptors, just you. There was a version of you that lived, that existed before language. In...