Luc is sitting on a skateboard, rolling through the yurt, la la la, thinking about whatever Luc thinks about while idling on a skateboard.
Sophie comes along and lays down in front of him. “I’ll be the road kill.” She sticks out of her tongue, making a grunting “I’m dead” sound.
Luc, not missing [...]
Luc is fascinated by war games. Playing “army men” with a thousand little people, animals, aliens, and monsters, plus setting up massive bunkers and fortresses out of blocks and legos and castles, endlessly working out battle strategies and outcomes. “Look at my line up!” he says. “Who do you think will win?” is his favorite [...]
This past Sunday I officially started a new novel. [Fireworks!] It had been so long since I was last drafting (what you call it when you’re facing the Blank Page a.k.a. the pulling stuff out of your bum phase) that I felt the need to prop myself with lots of, um, props. The last six [...]
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 clad Briohny Smyth doing some lovely yoga for a commercial for something (what? I couldn’t figure it out), which [...]
Time for something different! Here is a cool animation of Dan Pink’s work, based on material from his book Drive: the Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us that I ran across on Tobias Buckell’s site. Motivation isn’t what people and economics tend to think! People aren’t simple! But here, watch for yourself:
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Claudia did a terrific post over on her blog on ashtanga for folks over 40 yesterday. As someone who will be turning 41 in a few weeks, I read with interest and my mind has been turning the topic over this morning— especially as I watch my nearly 8 year old daughter flip [...]
Okay, after watching Fat Sick and Nearly Dead, I’m thinking I need a juicer. Plus, we went to a big museum full of people and their kids oogling the dinosaur bones (we looooove the dinosaur bones) and I was struck in a painful, eye-popping way by the huge percentage of hugely overweight and sickly looking [...]
No, not me, silly! This movie:
Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead is a documentary made by and about Joe Cross, an Aussie who was terribly overweight and very sick with an auto-immune disease that I can’t spell or pronounce. Realizing he is on his way to an early, painful [...]
As you may know, we watched all the Harry Potter movies over the holidays. Then we watched them again when I was sick a week later. Which led, of course, to the books, or, to be precise, the audiobooks. And I was shocked, shocked I tell you, to discover that audible.com does not have the [...]
Sophie got these awesome shoes for Christmas this year:
Aren’t they funny?!?
Toe shoes! As far as I can see, these shoes are pretty much the perfect kid shoe. They have a totally flexible, foot-conforming, rubbery sole, a stretchy mesh top, and these adorable slots for toes that a kiddo can [...]
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today's yoga practice
- friday
May 11, 2012 | 10:09 am…and now we come to lady’s holiday. the weakest week of yoga that ever barely happened.
- thursday
May 11, 2012 | 9:09 amprimary to navasana. can’t seem to get past freaking navasana this week. at least I’m on the mat.
- wednesday
May 11, 2012 | 9:08 amprimary to navasana with Maria’s vid.
- tuesday
May 11, 2012 | 9:08 amSKIP. Shame.
- monday
May 11, 2012 | 9:07 amprimary to navasana. am I back in the saddle?
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Archive for today's yoga practice »
- friday
upcoming book releases
a few greatest hits
- diggers watch tv, too
- flying kids
- the amazing emu
- the incredible hulk invades the yurt
- the 13 year visitation of the demon red-eyed cicada
- the TOOL shed
- the emotional insanity of writing
- the source of my power
- going all erin brockovich on your ass
- yurts: the downside
- spike and buffy got screwed--now with proof! (part 1)
- recycling other people's junk
- the way of the bento
- welcome to mayaland's virtual macabre crawfish feast of death!
- the solstice from inside a sundial
- living the tie-dyed life
- writing without pencil sharpening
- cool felt picture fun for kiddos
- bad things come in threes. or fours. (or maybe fives?)
- unexpected benefit of living in a round house #27
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