A noiseless, patient spider, I mark’d, where, on a little promontory, it stood, isolated; Mark’d how, to explore the vacant, vast surroun...

She sits, rocking, for hours on end, at the corner of her wraparound porch. Sometimes when I pass her, always in the same place, staring b...

Maybe I've always been a little overprotective. But the fact of the matter is, I've always cared deeply about my students.  When I...

I must have been about twelve, because it was my brother's First Communion. Old enough to know better, I guess. It was May, and the ad...

I have started and trashed countless blog post drafts during the past two and a half months.  Somehow, everything I write feels either tri...

It's been a while since I've gone to yoga.  I think about the sangha at my teacher's studio most Thursday nights and Sunday mor...

Have you ever done something just to see if you could? *** I don't remember how it started.  A joke, maybe, about my commute?  Tho...