Make Your Own Fun: A Weekend Reminder
I remember as a child complaining to my mother about being bored. Often the response was a directive to do a chore, read a book, or get outside. But on occasion she’d reply with more of a challenge. “Well, then. Why don’t you make your own...
The direct connection between happiness and giving
Ralph Waldo Emerson said: “It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.” We’re happier and healthier when we think of others. Which is why I’m over the moon to be a new Africa Yoga Project...
The most popular snack in my house. Ever.
Alice Waters’ latest cookbook My Pantry is a gem. In nearly sixteen years of cooking for my family, I haven’t seen such universal love for a recipe as the one on page 30. Alice Waters, legendary founder of Chez Panisse and the Edible Schoolyard, invokes the...
Why it’s ok to stop chasing your dreams.
As a dyed-in-the-wool dream chaser, never thought I’d write those words. But it’s true: Chasing doesn’t work. Because chasing is the opposite of allowing. Force is the opposite of grace. And yet, I know I still push. And chase from time to time. And...
Don’t mind me, I’m just getting (green) juiced.
Of all the topics to begin this adventure in lifeyumTV, never thought it’d be fun with a juicer, kale, some cukes, celery, apple and turmeric root. Or learning how to pronounce cen·trif·u·gal. (It took practice: senˈtrif(y)əgəl/.) But here’s the bottom...
3 ways to feel good when you don’t (and a feel good festival in upstate NY).
I’m a big overthinker, which has landed me in someday-land with lots of dreams. One of those was launching LifeyumTV, a way for me to share the good in a way that comes most naturally. And overthinkery, a word the great Alexandra Franzen taught me, doesn’t...
Wine and yoga: That’s my kind of yoga.
OK, we’re not drinking wine while we practice yoga. But internationally acclaimed writer, philosopher, performance and movement artist Cameron Shayne is coming to Albany to play in the vineyard with us. The wine tastings are later in the day. Local yoga guides...
How dreams come true: Do one thing (at a time).
Do one thing. Hard to do, but that’s the key. One thing. (At a time.) I’m still on a high. Revved with the juice of being in the presence of thousands of souls, just like me, who want to feel good and do good in the world. Chef Ann Cooper rounded out the...
More soulful and less goalful in 2014
If there was one thing that 2013 crystalized for me, it was that I can be OK even if everything else isn’t. And you can, too. Feeling is better than not (feeling); and channeling the ocean is how it works. Core desired feelings 1. Ebb and flow. Even if it feels...feel good, do good
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