For the past few weeks, I have been doing a careful line read of my upcoming novel Inhale Exhale for final submission. It’s a book about a middle-aged yoga teacher who is looking for love, and while reviewing it, this middle-aged former yoga teacher has been reflecting a lot on the hundreds of students I […]
Archives for August 2025
Our Best Friends
August 25, 2025 by
As you might imagine, I very frequently get asked for book recommendations. As you might not imagine, I am almost as frequently completely at a loss for book recommendations. I am loathe to recommend anything across the board, or really, anything at all unless I know a person well and I know their reading taste. […]
Enjoying What I Have
August 18, 2025 by
I am constantly striving to be really mindful in terms of consumption and shopping, to be thoughtful in my purchases and to buy only what I actually need. Lately, though, I have been sliding into Mindless Clothes Shopping Territory, and I feel that it should be curbed. It started innocently enough. Out of necessity, I […]
Together Again
August 11, 2025 by
The Boys Are Back In Town My husband and son have returned from their hiking trip in Scotland! They hiked the West Highland Way, which worked out to be 154 kilometres over eight days, and they enjoyed Edinburgh as well. It was quite the adventure, and it’s great to have them home. After two weeks […]
Alone Again, Naturally
August 4, 2025 by
Time, Unspooling Something I did not calculate in my recent time-tracking project was the amount of time that I spend in conversation with the people I live with, mainly my husband. I realized, as he has been on his Tour de Scotland, that a lot of time is spent talking, which makes many of my […]
