My yoga teacher Donna told me about this story this morning and it is one of the most amazing things I’ve seen this year.
Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor woke up one morning in 1996 and experienced a massive stroke in the left side of her brain. In this talk on TED she describes [...]
Yesterday Dooce, one of the blogs that I read religiously, had a great story about a racoon living in her chimney. It reminded me of a recent racoon event of my own.
I was couch surfing at a friend’s house in San Diego, and in the middle of the night I heard the cat growling [...]
There’s a Bikram yoga studio in Ashland. I was really excited to discover this because it has been just over a year since I’ve been able to practice regularly. Last year I began practicing at Bikram Yoga of Encino and I set myself a goal to do 60 days straight. This is [...]
There is something magical about love.
It will catch you unawares leaving you breathless, your heart racing. It locks you in and lets you go all at once the world is right. Your world comes closing in leaving you and your love together. Everything else fades to silver, to black, to red, to [...]
Happy Easter. It’s Easter so I went to Mass today. The church in Medford is beautiful, the congregation seemed to be in a springtime mood. Afterwards I drove to Crater Lake where there is still at least 10 feet of snow on the ground in places. It was surreal. I [...]
Tuesday morning I left the beach house in Malibu again. I’m moving to Ashland, Oregon, and plan to stay there until Burning Man in August. After Burning Man? who knows where I’ll go.
The debate was to take the 101 up to San Francisco or just to take Interstate 5 all the way [...]
This morning I’m leaving Los Angeles and moving for a time to Ashland, Oregon. The journey isn’t so long as a thousand miles, but it still begins with a single step. In today’s world, physical distance as an obstacle is obsolete. I can travel from any point in the world to any [...]
Break the Rock! It’s a phrase that I heard for the first time today as I was dropping my nephew, Sam Birdsong, off at LAX to fly home to Louisiana for a television commercial shoot. I was fascinated by it’s meaning.
The day started early. We had agreed to help Shane Wall of [...]
This morning I experienced a bona-fide iPod emergency.
Let me put this into perspective. I’ve been misbehaving with my money for most of my life. I knew that things were bad, because even though I was earning pretty good money I was always broke. Not fun, especially out here in Los Angeles.
Last year I moved back [...]
This beautiful city is always amazing, always friendly, always welcome. I forget how much I enjoy San Diego until I return. I’ve been staying with my friends Robert and Maria Sheperd in University Town Center. As always there is something exciting going on at their house. This week is the final week before the FIRST San Diego [...]
