It’s been a quick start to the new year – HOW IS IT ALREADY FEBRUARY!?  It seems like New Year’s is one of those times that people either love or hate. I sit on the fence with this one.  Ever since I was a kid, I felt anxious around the new year.  I never was one to believe the world would end, as has been predicted tons of times, but something about another year in the books is just a reminder that life is moving SO fast.  I still can’t decide if 23 is really young, or really old. Early last year, I decided to choose a word to focus on. 2017’s word? Grateful!  2017 was a […]

One of my favorite feelings in the world is dropping into savasana at the end of a perfect yoga class. It’s difficult to define what a “perfect” yoga class is but when you have taken one, you can feel it. I leave class feeling like I have a certain glow, and I’m reminded of why it’s essential to come back to my mat. The ability to feel, and really tune in, is essential. Laying in savasana at the Wanderlust yoga festival this past October, I could hear my heartbeat in my ears and felt as though I was full of light and warmth… I am sure the Texas sun beating down on me helped with that! It’s […]

  Anxiety, nausea, sadness, relief, grace, guilt, gratitude, happiness – I cannot remember the last time I felt so many varying emotions in a two week time period.  It’s difficult to describe the emotions that surface not only the anticipation of a hurricane, but in being witness to it, and seeing the aftermath. A sense of relief has washed over Houston as the flood waters recede, and ironically we have had the brightest, most beautifully sunny days over the last two weeks.  Amidst the suffering, I have seen such displays of humanity and compassion that have brought me to tears. For a city so battered by the wrath of a storm, I have been witness to an […]

Dearest Houston, Texas…. I’m so sorry that we started off on the wrong foot. The things I said about you weren’t nice, and I didn’t really have to chance to get to know you. A fatal flaw of mine is my inability to correctly judge based on a first impression. I’m slowly learning that nine times out of ten, I should believe the complete opposite of my first impression. I take back what I said about you being a “God forsaken” state (Texas that is – Houston I hope you don’t take offense to that?). A friend politely pointed out to me this week that Texas is more likely a state blessed by God, being in the […]

For months, I could not accept that I was leaving. I would say the words, but it never seemed real. I had spent all of my childhood in the same house in New Jersey, surrounded by friends, family, warm summers and cold winters. Texas? Did I actually think I could move there, just me?  Recently a friend of mine asked me how I knew that I could move away.  I sat there speechless. I admitted that I never really thought about whether I could or couldn’t. Coming out of school with a job offer was such a relief, it hadn’t occurred to me to ever say no. Looking back, I wonder if a subconscious part of me knew […]