How to make New Year’s Resolutions that actually work.

December 28, 2021

I’ve made many New Year’s Resolutions, and I’ve let them go before February even made an appearance. I’ve been far more successful with Sankalpa, the Yoga way of setting intentions, which I wrote about in Yoga Mind. Still, some of those intentions can remain just that: intentions, not actions taken. Recently, a friend mentioned Daniel […]

A little (forced) minimalism.

October 20, 2021

  Recently, my husband and I woke up to the sound of dripping water—not in our bathroom, but in the bedroom. Water was dripping from the ceiling there, and when I went into another room to get towels from the linen closet, water was streaming from the light fixture. And seeping under the stairs, from […]

What to do with those old jeans.

October 13, 2021

A few weeks ago, my husband Nathan and I were given a great opportunity to declutter: our apartment sprang several new, gushing leaks. (Thankfully, my yarn stash bag, holding all my favorite tools for MedKNITation, was safe!) We’d already been through the forced decluttering of SuperStorm Sandy, when our basement was flooded with eight feet […]