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It was difficult to gauge his reaction. Vlad woke up this morning to encounter the second snowstorm of his young life. Almost a full foot fell while we slept curled up together.  Delighted as he was by the snowfall 3 weeks ago, today his look seems to convey something along the lines of…. “Are...
How do you measure a year? Jonathan Larson in Rent was pretty specific: 525,600 minutes. And also extremely poetic: “In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffee.In inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife.” And for me, I measure the year by the anniversary of Belle going to her heav...
Radical Abundance $27 HERE. I don’t want you to have to wait as long as I did. Specifically, over the holidays when I returned home, I found a childhood photo I’d never seen before. I was born on July 2nd and it’s Christmas, so I’m one and a half years old in it. Obviously, we first have to applaud...
For better or worse, given how amazing this past Friday was, the rest of 2022 seems destined as anticlimax. Vlad and Malibu (and their other puppy friends) experienced their first real snowfall. At 7am that morning, the baseball field was suddenly Studio 54, the only party in town. And the joy was un...
My New Year’s Eves have run the spectrum from outrageous and extravagant black tie fêtes to asleep-by-11 pm pajama parties. Some of my favorites, though, were over a decade ago when for several years I taught a 10pm to midnight yoga class. Probably 75% of the class was my usual blend of music and movem...
This meditation is 6 minutes with an extra 12 minutes more of music by my talented friend David Buchs. You can stream it here or download in the link below. Or…Click toDownload
It wasn’t planned. And that’s perhaps what made it all the more magical. But this Christmas morning, Vlad and his best friend Malibu were the only dogs in the baseball field (the one we pretend is a dog park). And HERE is what ensued. I’m not sure why they were the only dogs there. It might ha...
Training a puppy––and by extension, romantic partners, co-workers, and family members––is all about setting boundaries. Some of these boundaries are obvious. Take, for example, successful housebreaking rules. Others––such as exuberant greeting jumps––feel more nebulous. Many are wildly delighted by...
New Offering HERE (discount code: LoveLanguage) Three New Puppy Videos HERE It was definitely one of the quirkiest jobs I’ve ever had.  It was only a few years after college. I was struggling to pay off my student loans whereas a friend of a friend had already made a killing in investment bank...