This may sound boring—but this represesents a sea-change, a concrete result of all those who bothered to vote, and change the balance in Congress. Read and weep—for joy.

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“Despite believing she is a witch, Mary likes Sarah and, in a strange way, trusts her.”

Random Passage - Bernice Morgan

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* Grab the book nearest you. Right now. Read the rest »

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Four days after my first Baron Baptiste experience, when I jotted down the notes for this blog, I was still sore, in muscles I didn’t even know existed. And after three years as a yoga practitioner, I thought I knew them all.

My dad and sister live just a few blocks from the Baron Baptiste studio in Porter Square, Cambridge. For years, I passed the unassuming storefront on my way to the subway or to buy groceries. But never could I have imagined the sweating that went on inside. My background in yoga is fairly traditional—first at Naropa University’s yoga teacher training program and at Richard Freeman’s Yoga Workshop in Boulder, known for its meticulous teaching and good form. Baptiste Power Yoga serves the ancient tradition with a modern twist, combining fast-paced sequences with 90-100 degree heat, for a sweat-filled experience of purification and cleansing unparalleled anywhere else.

Baptiste Yoga gets major points for approachability. Read the rest »

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A Treehugger article caught my eye today. Entitled “45 Days in Jail for Driver who Rode Around with Cyclist on the Hood of his Car” it detailed an insane incident last summer of road rage in which the thrown cyclist held on to the windshield wipers of the enraged driver’s moving car. This of course is a highly unusual case, but still brought up issues I didn’t even realize I had with getting on a bike. Read the rest »

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You know mindfulness has gone mainstream when there’s an Idiot’s Guide to it.  I admit that I approached this book with a good bit of trepidation.  Read the rest »

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Kate Morton is cradling a glass of red wine in her hand, comfortably slouched in a chair on the wooden deck of her lodge. We are surrounded by thick, steamy jungle in a remote corner of Central America and Kate is perfectly at ease in the humidity. I, however, am soaked to the bone and swatting mosquitoes that don’t seem to notice my host. In between smacks to my own neck and face, I drink Belikin stout from a cold, black bottle which is sweating as profusely as me. This is Read the rest »

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I’ll admit it, I am an avid Facebook user. Some even may call it chronic. This morning I boldly added a pop cultural question to my current status. Basically I was thinking about “Hipsters” and how mainstream the whole idea of anti-mainstream has become.  What will be the next big cultural fashion overhaul in the dawning age of Obamaism?

I left it open for debate thinking “ah no one will reply it’s not really that important…” and moved on with my day. A little while later I received a few comments, I wrote back and then the conversation just blew up. Read the rest »

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Driving north on a rural highway as straight as the line for your signature on a contract, I stop to look at a ribbon of thick black smoke on the horizon. Just me and a big black horse standing on the pasture watching the smoke rise into the clear, flat sky. The horse, as black as the smoke, ignores me until I get too fidgity and then ambles toward me, washes me with his liquidy black eyes and before turning again to the rising smoke. The horse and the smoke seem inseperable, ethereal dark characters on a yellow and blue landscape.

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I am always on the lookout for simple Read the rest »

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Having discovered in early August that the (at least) two year old fridge I’d inherited when I moved into ‘Hotelephant’ was the most inefficient thing in my slowly-greening home, I promptly sold it. Read the rest »

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Fun to watch—if you’re a knee-jerk liberal who’s been waiting years to see Hannity meet his verbal sparring match. Video: Read the rest »

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From Rocks to Rockets Arms and Armies through the Ages was written and illustrated by my dad William Gilkerson back in 1963. The story book has now been re-released by Osprey Publishing in many countries including Canada, The US and The United Kingdom.  My father was always a bit of a war history nerd and he always liked to draw old tanks, ships and lots of explosions.

Not much has changed…War is still popular and my dad still likes to paint and practice a little bit of safe shooting fun involving just a slight of gun powder. Read the rest »

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