Little Foxes

I live in a pretty typical suburban neighborhood.
We have a fenced in back yard. It’s pretty big compared to some back yards, but not for this subdivision. We don’t have much lawn — it’s generally a bit wild for suburbia.
We’ve had our share of stray cats in the back yard and we feed them. The [...]

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Best Hairdo Ever!

As a teenager, my first summer job was in the parking lot of a local amusement park. The job was outside, and I spent the long, hot days directing traffic, parking cars, and driving a tram. The uniform was dark blue shorts, a white collared shirt, and sneakers. I had really long hair then, and [...]

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Transformations

My favorite yoga teacher, Amy, is writing a dissertation on yoga and meditation and the mind. In class last Sunday she talked about recent research in memory and how the brain processes it. She is very excited about how this research dovetails with her own on how meditation affects the brain.
I like Amy’s approach to [...]

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ENOBLOGROLL

A standard feature of most personal blogs a blogroll which is a list of the blogs that the author reads. I don’t have one. Not because I don’t read other blogs, but because I just read a few of the most popular knitting blogs.
But I have recently expanded my horizon a bit. Added to Wendy [...]

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Journal Entries

The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself.
Joan Didion, “On Keeping a Notebook,” in Slouching Towards Bethlehem, 1968.
Over the years I’ve tried to keep a journal. I shopped for [...]

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