Last November I read The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin. The book is about a woman who was over-stressed, found herself snapping at her children and husband too much and felt she just wasn’t as happy as she could be. She spent an entire year researching how people found happiness and developing and cultivating her [...]
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Accountability.
Posted in chocolate, dance, inclusion, meditation, parenting a child with special needs, postpartum depression, unconditional love, yoga on April 10, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Hall of Fame
Posted in accessability, adaptive equipment, dance, inclusion, meditation, parenting a child with special needs, unconditional love, yoga on March 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
My husband Dave will be inducted into his college athletic’s Hall of Fame this April. Dave was an outstanding college basketball player holding many of the college’s scoring records to this day. “With 1,833 points, David Clark is the leading scorer in Goucher’s men’s basketball history and led his team to the 1994-95 Capital Athletic [...]
I love Bikram yoga and I love my body.
Posted in chocolate, dance, inclusion, parenting a child with special needs, unconditional love, yoga on March 24, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Last night as I was leading a silent Bikram yoga class at the studio where I practice I had a transformation. This transformation is not a new one for me, it happens almost every time I practice yoga. First of all a silent class is an incredible way to practice the series of 26 postures [...]
When a soccer ball hits you in the face…
Posted in dance, parenting a child with special needs on June 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’m pretty physically active, however, my talents don’t lie in sports that involve a ball or any flying object. My face is a ball magnet. Balls, frisbees and boom-a-rangs will hit me in the face at one point during the game. On my second date with Dave we went to the batting cages in Fells [...]
Chipping away the ego…
Posted in dance, meditation, parenting a child with special needs, yoga on June 16, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Last Sunday I performed a modern dance piece at an art gallery in Middlebury, Vermont. It was a lovely space with a small but very supportive, enthusiastic audience. Ella and Dave were in the audience, not in the front row, but off to the side. All of the people involved in the show and most of [...]
