Friday Chicken #97: FBOTW FTW

Because it’s Friday AGAIN. And because traditions are important. In which I cover the good stuff and the hard stuff in my week, trying for the non-preachy, non-annoying side of self-reflection. And you get to join in if you feel like it. Friday is clearly...

Putting iguanas to bed.

Iguanas = the things you don’t feel like doing. Sometimes you have a mess of them. And sometimes a giant pile of iguanas and doom. Calling them iguanas makes it easier. Kiss to Karen for the awesome Inowanna Iguana. Also: wanting to avoid things is normal. The...

Epiphanies without a filter.

My favorite thing about Shiva Nata is not even the ridiculously clear information it gives about everything in my life. It’s not even the permission to be terrible at something (you have to be terrible at it because being terrible at it is the way you get the...

Old Turkish Lady yoga. Interior design.

Whenever I mention that there will be optional Old Turkish Lady yoga at one of my events, people invariably want to know what the hell. The funniest, most delightful variation on that question came from a lovely reader who identified herself as someone who was an old...
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