In honor of Earth Day our yoga instructor Maureen led a class that emphasized our connection to the earth. We began in Toe Squat Pose. Toe Squat is a yin pose, and like most yin poses, it looks easy but is not. Stand on your…
What Money Can’t Buy — 1: Economic Prepositions
I recently read Michael J. Sandel’s What Money Can’t Buy: the Moral Limits of Markets. The book stirred up ideas…
Tough Reality
A recent study of the Georgetown University Center of Education and the Workforce reported that students with a…
There is something unseemly about a middle aged man in a Speedo standing in front of a mirror. The lines etched under the eyes, the hair that migrated off the head sprouting out the ears and…
Hong Kong Heights
Everything in Hong Kong is tall and narrow, except, of course, the people. Hong Kong calls itself the vertical city; more people live above the…
Last summer, the American Medical Association decided by an overwhelming majority that obesity is a disease. I wish I could share their certainty. Obesity is a personal and public…
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