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the idiot hat, or, sophie has had enough
We get grumpy. Everyone gets grumpy, right? Sometimes its hard to want to be a good enough person not to inflict one’s grumpiness on others. Sometimes being a jerk feels good. For a little while. Until...
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tapas and a bit of intermediate
I wrote here about three things I didn’t (yet) get about ashtanga: driste, rolling over one’s toes, and tapas. Well, it turns out, they’re all related, so no wonder I was struggling. First, the easy...
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sophie takes off!
Guess what Sophie did? She’s riding her bike without the training wheels! She got the balance part on the first try—she is so cool! It was that whole iconic moment, the one where the dad is running...
View Articlea beautiful problem
Yesterday I got home from some errands, and, happy to see her, I grabbed up Sophie (6) and started kissing her all over her face. After a moment, in a patient, friendly voice, she said, “Could you do...
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hats, guns, and dogs
Meet Luc, Outlaw Extraordinaire and a scary gentleman indeed. That’s a root he found in the park mulch, perfectly gun shaped. This is what little boys do: they find weapons in the simplest of objects....
View Articlewhat would you wish for?
If you’re an Avengers fan, you know all about [cue the woo woo music] the COSMIC CUBE. The Cosmic Cube is, “like a big cube that if you touch it then you can wish for whatever you want and then it...
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sophie does the yoga journal cover
Grimmly just touched his toes to his head. Big day for an ashtangi! As I commented on his post, I remember being able to do that, I was maybe fourteen, no chance now! But the crazy thing is, I...
View Articlelike i needed a second yoga practice
Because my days are just adrift with wide open spaces of nothing to do, I’ve added a second, daily, yoga practice to my schedule. Madness! It all started with that video going around of the scantily...
View Articlei love my daughter really a whole lot but i kind of hate yoga
This morning was a Fuck This Fucking Shit morning. You know those mornings. The ones when you can’t remember a single viable reason why you do any of the shit you usually do. Like, holy crap, who...
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a meeting of equals
Here we have the yurt site, nine years ago, a tiny Sophie (who just turned 10 last week) and my uncle, who put a huge amount of work into helping us raise the yurt. SO CUTE.
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