The World is Your Oyster; The World is My Home
Sean Brown is one of my long-time, most inspirational, and all-around closest and absolute best friends.  When I first met him as a junior in college, he’d just returned from a stint living in San Diego (or was it Los Angeles?).  In the six years since, he’s moved to Portland, OR and back and

Yoga and Body Image
This is one of those posts where I want to acknowledge my own sensitivity to a personal issue before I go all “I am woman, hear me roar!” on you. I recognize that body image is something that lots of folks – men and women – stress about, wrestle with, and even agonize over. I get that.  I’ve been as conscious of it as anyone el

Go West, Young Woman
Sometime late this summer, I got this fortune inside a fortune cookie that said: Be prepared to modify your plans. Considering that I had myself planted firmly in the middle of a crazy Plan My Life Out phase, that couldn’t have been more timely. I’ve known for at least a few years that my life’s path needs to inclu

Risk-Taking and Decision-Making
(That’s me and

#$%@%ing Read This Book
I had a busy fall.  I traveled up until the last possible second, then jumped right into 8 weeks of Yoga Teacher Traini