Winter Sports are finally here, but instead of delighting in the new snow-cover, I’m skidding around on the icy territory of teaching my girls to ski. Not downhill sking, whereby a child gets snapped into a secure pair of metal-edged rockets, rides the Magic Carpet up, and zooms back down. We’re going cross-country in our [...]
Entries from January 30th, 2012
SKI NANNY
January 30th, 2012 1 Comment
Tags: cross-country skiing · Parenting · ski nanny · Tiger Mom
TONGUE SUSHI
January 18th, 2012 1 Comment
Saturday morning dance party in the yoga studio. C is doing her wild-child, hair-tossing dance to Lady Gaga, sashaying across the floor to the insistent beat of “Poker Face.” A is arranging her stuffed animals in a corner, constructing a house for Lambie and Penguin out of yoga blocks. After a few songs, I slip [...]
Tags: honesty · Katy Perry · kissing · Lady Gaga · Parenting · Sexuality
FIVE POINTED STAR: LIFE ON THE STAR ISLAND YOGA RETREAT
January 11th, 2012 2 Comments
Here’s a post I wrote this fall, for Embody, the RASAMAYA Movement Center’s very cool blog. Click HERE to read about life on magical Star Island.
Tags: Rasamaya · Star Island · Star Island Yoga Retreat · Yoga
ABUNDANCE in 2012
January 5th, 2012 No Comments
HAPPY 2012! I have a feeling this is going to be a good one. I love turning the corner of the year and looking ahead to the wide expanse of a fresh calendar. The promise that 2012 brings a new dawning of the Age of Aquarius has got me full of astrological hope. And what [...]
Tags: 80s music · gratitude · new years resolution · Pandora
YOU’VE GOTTA SEE THIS!
January 3rd, 2012 1 Comment
Wild Night on the Catwalk! I was there, with my gorgeous mom friends. One of whom was the one and only Desha Peacock– Red Carpet Hostess for Vermont’s hottest fashion show. Watch and enjoy the magic: Episode 5 of The Desha Show: Wild Night on the Catwalk from Desha Peacock on Vimeo.
ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS
January 2nd, 2012 No Comments
The moon rose huge and red over Searsburg Mountain as we drove home from my mother’s. I stopped the car to marvel at the impossible color, a glowing apple suspended in the winter sky. “Look, girls, the moon is red!” But the girls were absorbed in Judy Moody, MD and didn’t care about lunar phenomenon. I [...]
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HOLIDAY BLAH BLAH BLAH
January 2nd, 2012 1 Comment
Here we go again, down the long, dark tunnel of December. On the Monday after Thanksgiving, I reclined mutely in the dentist’s chair listening to pop Christmas music piped through the office. In my vulnerable position, I was powerless to request anything but my toothpaste flavor. Male a-cappella groups chimed “The 12 Days of Christmas” [...]
Tags: Christmas · credit card debt · de-cluttering · holiday stress · holidays · perfectionism