Tough time to celebrate Independence Day. Women particularly are not feeling independent, nor are LGBTQ or any other minority. In a podcast I listened to this week with the actor Jeff Bridges, he mentions the concept of a Trimtab.

The hubs and I are rebuilding a stone wall that is in front of our house. It has fallen over several times over the course of us living in our house for almost 20 years. Various sections have different colored concrete holding the stones together.

When I was a kid and took baths regularly, I would lay my head back in the bathtub and just keep my nose and my mouth barely out of the water to breath. I would see how still I could become trying not to move a muscle.

January was a blur. Between the fallout from the holidays, the mid-west weather, the latest version of Covid, and an overwhelming desire to watch Netflix and just sleep - January 2022 was nothing to remember.

A foundational shape in yoga practice is called Tadasana or "Mountain Pose". In every other standing pose at least one leg is always in Tadasana. It can sometimes be overlooked.

It does not matter what level or lineage of yoga you practice, the final pose offered is "savasana". The translation means "corpse pose" which sounds a bit macabre.

I somehow clicked on an account on instagram called Hair2Pearl and found myself quickly down the rabbit hole. It is an account that posts a hair video a day -- how to videos of incredible braids, ponytails, or up-dos. With over a million plus followers, clearly I am not the only one.

"Are you are still going?" is what everyone asked me two weeks ago as I got ready to leave for Italy.

I spent 10 days in Colorado hiking, seeing old friends, and saying goodbye to my daughter who moved to Colorado Springs. The hubs and I tackled 2800 miles in our car 10 days. Whew.

Courage has many faces. The most visible form is the one found in the headlines and piped to us through the news. Remember when Captain Sullenberger safely landed a plane on the Hudson River?