Yoga

It’s hard to believe I began this tradition in 2007, something that feels like several lifetimes ago. Since then it’s taken place all across this hemisphere, from NYC’s Lower East Side to its Upper West, from Los Angeles to Florida, from San Francisco to Seattle, and now to hipster Bushwick. It’s al...

My mother insists that I was meant to be born on the Fourth of July. However since her doctor had planned a golf vacation for that weekend and I was already way past her due date, my birth was induced on July 2nd instead. Frankly, I think this accounts for my life-long feeling of being slightly out-o...

When it happened, I wasn’t prepared. It was an honor far beyond anything I could ever have anticipated. In fact, no one could have. That’s because the gift itself––and the inherent responsibility––hadn’t even existed the day before. Namely, this week I was chosen to receive the spare key to a v...

I probably should blame myself more. And I’m honestly not sure how much this is innate or because of my bad parenting but… Vlad has a level of Personal Confidence that easily wanders into Entitlement. To be frank, I find the way that Vlad asks for anything––and you could substitute other verbs for...

I don’t think he learned it from Bill Gates. (At least not directly). But as I was reading through the next section of Essentialism, I couldn’t help but wonder about yet another quirky, self-taught aspect of Vlad’s behavior. (And it’s one that’s escalated considerably now that the Brooklyn tempera...

I found the Academy Awards this year both moving and disorienting. While I was pleased with many of the winners, given that the theme I’ve been exploring this month is Resilience (Meditation HERE), several of the “Never Give Up On Your Dream” Victory Speechesinspired reflection, if not outright skeptici...

Last week I shared how my pre-Covid project about Resilience got completely derailed before it even left the station. When it was still alive and kicking, however, I remember googling images for Resilience mostly to decorate the covers of my research binders. Sadly, almost everything that came up was...

I just assumed the phrase was always more or less with us. Yet there actually is an origin story. As I was researching other classic paradoxes for this month’s theme, it turns out that the line “Less is More” first appears in Andrea del Sarto, a poem by Robert Browning about the artist. The poem b...

It’s not a problem I ever envisioned having. More accurately, I never really calculated this particular disruption in my generally cozy life. You see, this morning my iPhone told me the temperature outside with wind chill felt like -11°. Blessed with excellent central heating, it seemed a perfect ...