(Read Part I here.)
By the late nineties, yoga was all the rage again. Not just for the hippy set -- hip Hollywood moguls began building yoga studios at home, and once in a while they would have a yoga guru teaching a class. If you were an...
(3) Comments | Posted May 18, 2012 | 1:01 PM
It began innocently enough when I was attending Boston University's School of Fine Arts. A fellow classmate, whose name escapes me, suggested that I accompany her to a yoga class. Her face is vividly stamped in my mind: Square-jawed with thick, bee-stung lips (pre-lip-enhancement days), freckly white skin with a...
(12) Comments | Posted March 1, 2012 | 11:39 AM
The year was 1963, and Davy Jones was everybody's favorite teen dream in New York, starring as the Artful Dodger in the original Broadway production of the musical, Oliver, based upon the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens.
It also happened to be the year my father had his favorite...
(2) Comments | Posted January 27, 2011 | 11:49 AM
I recently read through articles from the last week December and came across this one from The Associated Press: "Audacity of 'austerity,' 2010 Word of the Year."
"Austerity, the 14th century noun defined as "the quality or state of being austere" and "enforced or extreme economy," set...
(1) Comments | Posted May 25, 2010 | 4:57 PM
Are you someone who is curious about how parts of the world were created? Do you seek out adventure and get excited over something incredibly unique? There is a perfect spot for anyone who is fascinated with indigenous peoples and their culture, where history is frozen in time and frozen...
(2) Comments | Posted March 19, 2010 | 3:02 PM
While the doom and gloom of the economic crises is creeping upward again, there may be light at the end of the tunnel for the aging boomer. Some leading edge financial pundits are finally starting to tell the truth of a downward spiral in certain sectors. One week the so-called...
(1) Comments | Posted November 14, 2009 | 12:57 PM
Yesterday, at the last minute, I decided to go to the movies. I searched through the reviews and nothing seemed to hit. The opening of the long awaited "2012," the doomsday scenario or latest version of Armageddon, was compelling, but my gut said, "No." There are lots of scary, Halloween...
(4) Comments | Posted June 8, 2009 | 10:55 AM
After years of priding myself on being a brilliant bargain shopper (Neiman's Last Call anyone?), my shopping days are now officially over. Well, not exactly over, but I think I have not set foot in a real department store in years. Not even Neiman's or Saks or heaven forbid, anyplace...

(6) Comments | Posted May 22, 2012 | 12:29 PM