The start of a new year is exciting. It’s full of promise and idealism for all the things that we might accomplish. I used to think of these new goals at my birthday, preferring instead to think of it as a “new year” for me. But over the last couple…
In my Thanksgiving post, I already commented that it’s been a year. But…but from a personal standpoint, 2016 was a pretty decent year for me. I picked back up with my travel and visited new cities domestically and internationally. I also committed much more to my yoga practice and have…
What a year. It seems to me that taking a moment to reflect on the things for which we are thankful is just a little more important this year. The news can be a reminder that year has been one of loss, anger, hurt, damage. But it’s also been a…
The first few hours can be tough. There will be some tough patches that first day while settling in when traveling without built-in support or relying on anyone else to get you where you need to go. Maybe within those first few hours even, when you don’t have anyone to…
I haven’t been in a power outage in a long, long time. They were kind of fun when I was young and happened at my old house when giant thunderstorms rolled through North Texas, the kind with thunder claps so loud they rattled the walls. There we had a fireplace…
Tomorrow (February 8) marks the Chinese New Year and on the other side of the world is now ushering in the Year of the Monkey. Which, without knowing much about Chinese astrology and going only by my views of the monkey, kind of tells me that this should be a…