I always wake early. I have stopped wishing otherwise. There is a magic to the early morning. The vata is high, vata in the ayurvedic/yoga tradition holds the elemental energy of sprit, breath, creativity and collective consciousness.  I know the winter mornings are hard but I love coming out to the dark living room and […]

On Day Three Of NyQuill By Bonnie Tarantino On day three of NyQuil I have apocalyptic thoughts. I wake up worried I may never hold a grandchild. That cancer may find a way into myself or a loved one. Or that maybe I won’t bother putting up a Christmas tree. I write and write it […]

Track Suit Saturday When I was a young teenager, two things happened that brought me a lot of freedom and fun. One was a snow club bus that picked us up in the dark early mornings on wintery Saturday’s and took us to upstate NY or even into Vermont to ski for the day. The […]

Maya and I are doing a college tour. We started in Chapel Hill, NC then Durham now we are in Nashville sitting on the rooftop bar/pool. We are good travelers. Often in the summer when the older kids were in high school and had summer jobs and Scott had to work, Maya and I would […]

The Harvest By Bonnie Tarantino I have been home a week and it has been a slow crawl back to myself. While playing house with all my kids for a month on the beach in Hawaii, I happily threw my almost empty nester self to the curb. Now I am trying to find her again […]

This morning I am leaving Hawaii after spending a month here. I woke hours before the sunrise for my solo trip home. Scott and Maya left days ago to make it back for the first day of Maya’s last year of high school. Jack and Lu left yesterday which is always sad but they promised […]

Magical thinking begets magical experiences. Yesterday I swam Waimea bay. When I got home I realized I was missing one of my black pearl earrings. I didn’t mean to wear my earrings to swim but they are often my go to and I forgot they were on. When I realized I lost the earring I […]