On the first day of each month, one thing I look forward to doing is reading The Mat’s monthly newsletter with my morning cup of...
The Magic of the Eclipse
We experienced quite the astrological show in this part of the world earlier this month with the solar eclipse passing through so much of the...
National Stress Awareness Month and Yoga
I think it’s fun hearing about different national/international days like National Wildlife Day, Book Lovers Day, Black Cat Appreciation Day, etc. And for something to...
Finding Inspiration for the Kitchen in Travels
There are, clearly, a number of things I love about traveling, but one thing that can be fun is thinking about how to bring the...
Master Classes
Master Classes are back at The Mat Yoga Studio for another year! If you haven’t attended a Master Class at The Mat, you may be...
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…
I’m a little behind when I wanted to have completed this post. My internet connection had a little mishap involving my cat and the modem, but all is fixed now. When I received a new AC adapter that fit, I was definitely a happy girl. There’s an internet provider commercial…
I can credit my friend for first introducing me to Wanderlust several years ago. She attended one of their three-day yoga festivals and it sounded so amazing. We had first talked about the possibility of me joining her, but I wasn’t able to fly out for the visit. But then…
Over the Easter weekend I visited Washington, DC for the first time as a tourist. Which was kind of interesting. I had only been to DC as a student studying in the capital for a semester, or lived there. And while I definitely played tourist so many times – and…
When I started my Photo of the Day challenge on Instagram, I really wasn’t sure how it was going to go, where it was going to take me, or even how long I was going to do it. One month? Two? Well now we’re nearly to the end of the…
If you’re in the North Texas area, then you know that we have been having such a great spell of spring-like weather (though of course, spring officially started Saturday night!) the latter part of this winter. And I have been making sure to get outdoors on the weekends – at…