Big Sur

I brought along a magnesium fire starter and then discovered two things. I am too fat to squat comfortably on the ground long enough to start a fire. I had to get a camp chair and lean over the fire pit. I doubt that will be available to me in the wilderness. The other thing […]



Day 10 – Yoga Postscript

OK – so – to prevent myself from watching more Murder She Wrote reruns, I did the sun salutations from WaiLana.com – which I have saved from PBS. For goodness’ sake – I’m so inflexible. This is ridiculous. A half hour of slow-slow-slow sun salutations and I’m beat and sweating. Ridiculous. I do the Work […]





What’s a Daruma Doll…?

So, today I inked in my biggest Daruma Doll’s eye – and put 365-TAR on the bottom. I’m having trouble importing photos into this blog (probably because my WordPress is outdated), but if you want to see a daruma doll, scroll to the bottom. It is the tradition in Japan to give a Daruma Doll […]



Feeling Down? Overwhelmed? Stressed? Biohack yourself!

Question: What’s on the floor next to your bed? Mine has quite the precarious pile of books that I’m in the middle of reading. And perched on the very top is my Kindle reader! My Kindle reader (which happens to be an Android tablet) is stocked full of my “brain candy” of choice: Da-Vinci-Code-esque thrillers, […]