At this stage of winter, when most people are lamenting enough is enough and over it, I’m doing my best to dig in with renewed fortitude. I enjoy the bundling, the sloshing, the breathing in of the icy morning that wakes you up. I enjoy being in the chilly kitchen with simmering stocks and roasting vegetables in the oven. […]
1. We moved to Baltimore. During a snowstorm. It all worked out and this city has *just* the right amount of grit, art markets, old churches, mohawks, communist bookstores and Old Bay paraphernalia to satisfy our running list of what defines the “perfect” city for us. In short, we’re in love. 2. For the record: living with […]
This weekend, my friends and I drove two hours into southern Maryland for the first-ever Chesapeake Herbal Gathering, hosted by our local herbal healing and learning center, Centro Ashe. Both the old and young (and very young) gathered together for a day of inspiration in the chill of early autumn. Think plant walks, herbal medicine-making classes and talks, […]
This week in Washington has been seriously lovely. The shadows are lengthening like long cat stretches. The nights are cool and breezy and quiet. Late summer storms thunder through the early evenings with brute force and then dissipate as quickly as they came. And although the equinox is still a month away, you can taste […]
On these balmy spring evenings in DC, when the humid swamp air is starting to creep in and the hazy light lingers past 8 pm, I open the windows wide, light a candle, and crack open the spine on one of my new herbal healing books. I’ve gently alluded to this in a past post, […]
Or perhaps I should say, the yoga intensive that wasn’t. I knew I should have developed all sorts of contingency plans for all the “what ifs”. Like, “What IF I go away for a weekend?” or “What IF a yoga class doesn’t fit into my schedule one day?” or “What IF I get a cold that transforms into BRONCHITIS?”
