Does this Couch Make Me Look Fat?
Does This Couch Make Me Look Fat? Growing up in a big family meant two things: there was always noise, and there was always food. We didn’t have much money, but we had an abundance — in spirit, in chaos, and definitely in portions. A serving of spaghetti in our house could feed a small […]
Moments in Time
Some people come into our lives and stay for years.Others brush by for a moment — a single crossing of paths, a fleeting exchange — and yet something in that instant etches itself into us. A moment in time that is a tiny thread in the fabric of our lives. I like to call these […]
The Power of Our Story
The Power of Our Stories: Remembering, Healing, and Reclaiming Ourselves It’s been 42 years since my life split in two—the day the girl I had been for eighteen and a half years was taken from me on the floor of a small-town convenience store in Louisiana.That night changed everything. What happened there was a violation […]
Learning to Listen
Ganesha and the Elephants of Gonarezhou I’ve been studying Tantra for fifteen years, and I’ve learned that its deepest teachings don’t just live in books — they live in experience. They speak through the body, the Earth, and the beings who remember what we’ve forgotten. In India, one of the most beloved gods is Ganesha, […]
The Audacity of Longing
Longing Claimed Most of my life before studying Tantra, I thought of longing as something secret—something to be hidden away. It lived unnamed in the shadows, something I wasn’t supposed to want too much or reach for too openly. Longing, I believed, was for what couldn’t be had—an ache for something unattainable. There was a kind of […]
Why Pleasure Isn’t a Luxury — It’s the Key to Living Fully
The 5 Levels of Pleasure: How a Workshop on Joy Became a Journey Through Grief, Healing, and Wholeness I still remember the moment I hesitated before signing up for The Five Levels of Pleasure workshop. It was the summer of 2012, and my father was dying. Every cell in my body told me I shouldn’t go — […]
Love Remains
The Past Is Just a Story We Tell As I get older, I’m realizing something quietly profound: the past isn’t a fixed place we can all point to—it’s a story we tell, shaped by the lens of who we’ve become. I grew up in a large family, the kind that spills across generations and dinner […]
The Ripple of a Gentle Giant: Remembering Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall died this week, and I found myself feeling the deep impact of someone leaving the planet who had quietly shaped me for so many years. It feels almost impossible to believe she’s gone. I started watching and following Jane’s work when I was around ten years old. Along with my younger brother, Mark, […]
The Rest of the Story
When I was growing up my parents loved listening to, “The Paul Harvey Show”, on the radio. He did a segment called, “And Now You Know…” It would start with a story that held a common collective belief or premise. Harvey would then tell little known details and facts so that by the end of […]
Breath As a Practice
A little over 12 years ago I began studying tantra. Tantra is a Sanskrit word that means to expand or to weave. Many tantra texts state that, “Nothing exists that is not divine.” And, that includes the breath. My journey with tantra began after taking a class in NYC on the art of learning to […]