I'm posting this for those of you in NYC or close. I highly recommend taking anything with Anna Halprin. She is amazing & works primarily with non-dancers, though she has had tremendous influence on modern dance for decades. It blew me away to see what a vibrant 89 year old *should* look like. I am forever changed by having taken her workshop ( Read more... )

The pre-amble - if there had been genetic testing back in the day when my great-great grandparents were hookin’ up they would have seriously reconsidered the plague they were about to unleash on their descendents to come. On my mom’s side - holy mother of genetic predispositions - runs heart disease, high cholesterol, diabetes (1 & 2), breast ( Read more... )

Well we really don’t have them to speak of. Since Seth started working for the book store, we don’t get days together unless one of us takes a vacation day. So we eek it out on 4 together evenings a week and the random day off. But Adobe’s been squeaking out the pennies and forcing vacations every quarter; I’m so dang stretched I haven’t even ( Read more... )

I don’t often grocery shop on Sundays anymore. I’ve got my schedule wrapped pretty tight - CSA delivery on Wednesday, evaluate contents & menu plan on Thursday, shop Friday after work but before my weekly call with my best friend. And while on the phone, I unpack groceries and wash and prepare CSA veggies ( Read more... )

So I went for my yearly mammy last week. Until a couple of years ago & reconnecting with my mother, I didn't know that I had an intense family history of breast cancer. I frankly think it freaks doctors out more than me. And let me clarify that all the women in my family have had very treatable forms of breast cancer and have all survived longer ( Read more... )

It's been 5 weeks since Oliver passed and I find that I am grieving grief. Now that the excruciating pain has subsided into a dull ache, I long for the acuteness of that first day without him. Because if it was the first day without then it would only be 24 hours since I last held his precious little body, only a couple of months since his ( Read more... )

Well I have been meaning to update for…well…. Months. There was that green belt test, which seems like eons ago, followed by a little flu that turned into a gigantic infection of sinuses and lungs. A month of my life gone - I was actually physically out of the office for a week and a half, which is almost unbelievable for this little workaholic ( Read more... )

From the time you become a white belt at my MA school, you begin hearing about the terrifying, challenging - scare the pants off the meanest guy - test. Me? I simply opted out - ‘well I’m not taking a green belt test - ever’. I don’t like to buy into others’ drama and stories about stuff; this feels like all the older kids in my family & ( Read more... )

Well we went to the cardiologist this morning the get Oliver’s heart checked. His recent collapsing events seem to indicate that his heart is getting worse, so we were there getting updated tests with a plan to likely put him on meds. While there, the doc thought she felt something in his abdomen and so we proceeded with a test to check that ( Read more... )

a day comes along and it's just about near perfect - that was today. Sunday is my only day to sleep in, but that never stops my ancient kitty-boy from starting his belly-aching at 5:30, "mama, get up. mama, feed me". This morning DaddyBear locked him away in his room so I could get some rest, and then got up earlier than his usual to get them ( Read more... )