March 2014

Today I finished an edit of a wonderful new fitness workbook (I’m being annoyingly coy because I’m not sure what the release strategy etc. is) but when my author friend asked about my application of the material … I could only reply that it would be to do my annual dropback photo shoot th...
Recently over lunch with a dear friend, she shared a brilliant re-definition of Surrender: CLICK to Surrender & Transform It’s been a VERY rough week and I’ll be honest:  SURRENDERING is definitely the lesson I most need to learn. And after teaching yoga for nearly 15 years — even th...
For years I taught at a major yoga center where we were encouraged / required to chant. In many ways, I loved doing this, although I have a complicated, uncertain relationship with Hindu dieties. (My dear friend Bryn, however, seems to be on an intimate, first-name bases with them.  Seriously –– it’s like ...
Read through and noted all my (multitude of) questions re: the book I’m editing. 3.5 hour meeting with the memoirist to gain insights. And then listened to my super-great, ultra-crackpot reading of my Human Design Chart reading (via MP3), which is actually 3 readings and about 5 hours long. And well ...
Having watched both MILK (the Oscar-winning movie starring Sean Penn) and THE TIMES OF HARVEY MILK (the Oscar-winning documentary) today back-to-back, I’m more than a little verklempt. Both films are just SO GOOD … particularly when you watch them together and see how astonishing the performanc...
(So begins a Harvey Milk speech from the 70s) Can I just say that it is so wonderful that one of my new client’s projects requires my re-watching MILK (along with various documentaries) in order to edit/consult on his memoir.  (ie, he was THERE.) & Can I just say that we live in an age of marvels...
In the corner of my bedroom, on permanent display, is the greatest thing I own:  this amazing picnic basket. I fell in a weird kind of love with it while Adrian and I were working on a project in Vancouver and he bought it for me for Christmas that year. It’s at once the epitome of both Downton Abbey...