The same week I went on Medicare, I had a routine eye exam and learned I have cataracts. At check-out, I flashed my new red, white and blue Medicare card. The receptionisttold me I didn’t need to show it. She said, “So that you don’t lose it or have it stolen, carrying it around is… Continue Reading
“Go outside. Find something in nature; an acorn, mud, clouds, a stream, or howling wind. Whatever. Imagine it possesses special communication. Ask and then listen for its message for you.” These were Elizabeth’s instructions to those of us in her Eco-Psychology class. I chose to walk the Boulevard on a bright day, my eyes drawn to… Continue Reading
Annie, a best friend of fifty years, calls me from Chicago. She says, “Drew’s tests came back positive.” I freeze: our other best friend has cancer. My mind flashes to wild-haired teen-age Drew in the 1960s: how he whispered to Annie and I only: “I’m gay.” Annie and I spent a few late nights with… Continue Reading
When Ayurvedic doctors read my pulses, they say, “your body type is pitta/vata: fiery, intense as a first default; airy and quick as plan B; not much Kapha, not much Earth.” My husband Jon is Earth, the contented cow in the field moving ever so slowly from one comfy patch to another. There’s not much… Continue Reading
Happy Spring! It may not feel like spring out there but it is coming. Lift your weary winter spirits with this workshop. If you are sick of diets that don’t work, if you are tired of not knowing what or how or when to eat, if you want peace with food and body, come to this… Continue Reading
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