Category: Essays

• March 22, 2011

  30 Hours – Part II

  After graduating from college I was shocked to discover how quickly the mind atrophies without the structure of classwork.  When there isn’t any guidance for reflection on a text or class material, even reading “serious non-fiction” just isn’t the same.  So now it’s rather humorous that I approached the coming of my certification exam with…

• March 3, 2011

  30 Hours – Part I

  Yesterday I taught my first class at Meredith College. Due to the oddities of scheduling half semester courses our class will meet once more on Friday and then the students will go on Spring break, during which time I will be taking the biggest, most daunting test of my life. The Anusara Certification written test…

• February 18, 2011

  Where is the Love?

  “The Spirit in all beings is immortal in them all: for the death of what cannot die, cease thou to sorrow.1“ I was writing about love and the power of the eternal moment when my husband called to tell me about the horrific sexual assault and gang rape of CBS news correspondent Lara Logan. My…

• January 9, 2011

  In the Beginning

  Sometimes a beginning is easy. Sometimes it is hard. As I sit here at my table at Panera Bread, trying desperately to figure out what to say, where to begin, a couple sits at the table next me. The woman is deaf, the man is not. In my periphery I see his lips move, forming…