Yoga and Project Management, two distant stars rarely mentioned in the same breath. But when these two fields align with a shared purpose—creating an ethical, sustainable business—they make surprisingly effective partners. If you’re interested in starting your own business or improving your performance at work, read about how a fusion of yoga and project management […]
“You’ve heard of racism, well this is what it looks like.” It looked like the triumph on my customer’s face when I finally understood that in her America, interracial love was not only taboo, it was abhorrent. And triumph turned her otherwise pretty features so ugly I could barely look at her. Read more at […]
We were promised yoga, elephants, and village life in the mountains of central Thailand. And on Day One, we left the tourist trail behind in Mae Sot. Our four-wheel-drives meandered through rolling hillsides bright with sunshine, thick with ripening corn. When the paved road ran out, we bounced along on rutted dirt through hairpin twists […]
McCarthy, Alaska is one of the last outposts of the American frontier. More a village than a town, it sits in the middle of bear country surrounded by ice floes, and glaciers, and rivers so swift and cold they take your breath away. Beyond McCarthy the mountains are so impenetrable you need a frontier spirit […]
Read the published essay in Our Pandemic, a publication of The Writer’s Workout. All proceeds from the sale of the magazine go to Direct Relief which provides emergency medical services around the world.
I remember the sound as a thud, an enormous, blunt thud, louder and more resonant than anything I ever heard before. My head jerked sideways, then returned to center buffeted by a wave of air. I knew something bad had happened, something irreversible; nothing good makes a sound that big. Read more at HerStry, the […]
A Christmas journey through the night by Greyhound bus – a community of strangers, a chance encounter…”Connections in my life were slow, cautious dances that took time and work, but he smiled straight at me as if there were no barriers to overcome, as if we had always known each other. I felt like someone […]
It’s hard to imagine Nicole sheathed in latex. At just under 200 pounds, make-up free, with a big, friendly smile, she looks like the perfect suburban neighbour, the kind you’d trust with the keys to your house because you can rely on her to feed your cat when you’re away. Because her appearance is a […]
Every year or two I get a cold which turns into a cough which turns into bronchitis. Until it hurts to breathe, I don’t pay much attention to my breathing on a day to day basis. Same is true for most people … Unless it affects our quality of life, we take breathing for granted. […]
