The Awkward Pose

Foot Chakras

Connect Your Energy to the Earth

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…

Yoga Body

What I See after 100,000 Minutes Looking in the Mirror

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…

Restorative Yin Yoga

Doing so Litte Feels so Great

Yin yoga is like making a feast out of nothing. The poses are easy, barely poses at all. We hold them a long time; so long I forget I’m in a pose. When the tinkling bell goes off to change, my psyche is far removed…

The Queen of Versailles for Our Times

The Bigger the Palace, the Emptier the Life

My definition of a good movie is — do I wake up thinking about it the next morning? According to this criterion, Queen of Versailles, which came out in 2012, is one…

Chinese Noodle

The best noodles at the lowest prices, if you disregard the airfare

Made in Detroit

Time to Replace ‘Tough’ with ‘Smart’

I love Detroit. I loved it as a child hearing my father’s automotive tales of his home city. I loved it through every era depicted in Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex, even the 1967 riots. I’ve loved flying in and out…

Cambodia Today

A Generation after the Killing Fields

Adventures in Cambodian Bathrooms

Sanitary Habits the First World Should Implement