Tag: yoga
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Baked Italian Eggplant Polenta with Parmesan & No Place like Om
It is an unwritten rule that if your partner or spouse goes away for any period of time, the children and animals will give you trouble. Today is no exception. 5am? Cue the dog vomit. 5.30am cue the daughter hunched over the toilet. 5.45am cue the dog again along with the worried Daniel who slept… Read more
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Black Olive and Caper Tapenade & Proportional Happiness
When I go to Mexico to visit my old friend, Cristina, I like to help her milk goats, eat the cheese she makes from those goats, and wander into the market to buy hand-made blue gorditas and cactus for salad. But what I really love is buying spoons. They are made locally, don’t cost much,… Read more
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Strawberry Upside Down Cake & Old Friends
The email arrives as these things do, out of the blue for the one on the receiving end. I read, try and take it in. Our friendship breakup eight years ago was a source of pain and, moreover, left me confounded. Yes, I’d known we were flailing, growing apart – me with kids, she on… Read more
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Yoga for Bitches & Coconut Mushrooms with Asparagus
Everyone talks about yoga the way they talk about sex when they finally get good at it or the way a few friends from [insert high school, college, grad school, work, summer] talk about [insert pot, shrooms, Levain chocolate chip cookies, God, Clapton, David Foster Wallace, Princeton]. I tried yoga about a decade ago (and… Read more