Nice to be described as Sizzling in this DOWNWARD DOG Review.

Another Day, Another Set of Life Lessons from Beautiful Belle…HERE.

Forget about endless Chaturanga. Savasana might just be the most challenging pose for many type-A yogis. Even B.K.S. Iyengar himself admits that: (for the rest of my essay, check it out online at Mind Body Green.  

The blog I was going to write today –- well, actually I did write it; I just decided not to publish it –– was, quite frankly, entirely reactionary. It’s not worth going into the details but basically while watching Saturday Night Live, I stumbled on something bizarre about myself on the interwebs, somethin...

Since I’ve always defined myself as primarily a writer, with that comes a self-image of someone who’s more or less behind the scenes, crafting words which other people read and/or perform, but who exists mostly as an image on a book jacket –– one that gets updated every five to ten years. Basically, I’m in...

There was a time when I was quite faithful to my blogging. For almost two years, every single day –– except for minor exceptions like Major Surgery –– I wrote something. Lately though –– with all the demands of my novel’s release (including numerous guest posts and...

When I’m directing, I have mixed feelings about improv. Sydney Lumet said it best –– and I’m totally paraphrasing –– but something like, “Do people really think the line that someone makes up on the spot is going to be better than the one the writer spent endless t...

I admit to being a huge fan of Neil Gaiman’s novels. In fact, I downloaded OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE immediately, longing for a few coherent hours to devour it.  I can’t wait to get lost in his writing. But here’s the thing that REALLY mystifies me: his twitter omnipresence. First, let...

One of the Grand-Daddies of all meditations is the “So Hum” one –– “I Am That” –– breathing in on “So” (silently) and exhaling on “hum” (silently). And that’s all well and good and ancient, but given that this has been one of the roughest weeks I’...