This Mama’s Dharma

Last night I went to the book party for my friend Sarah Browning, who has published her first book of poetry, Whiskey in the Garden of Eden. I am so proud of Sarah. I knew her when she first came to DC. She started the DC Poets against the War movement and [...]

I declare it here, loud and clear…
I’m applying to acupuncture school!
I do believe I am going to become an acupuncturist, yessiree.
On Thursday, I sat in on a class at the Tai Sophia Institute, the first accredited school of acupuncture in the US. I had already been heavily leaning towards applying to the [...]

When life kicks your ass, make fruit salad. It’s a great practice.
How blessed I am to have a refrigerator full of ripe organic fruit, enough to make a fabulous and riotously colorful fruit salad, which, incidentally, will feed the mothers in my moms’ group and their children, who are coming over for playgroup at [...]

Tonight is one of those strange, silent nights when Sami is at his father’s.
I would really like to indulge in some kind of self-destructive, addictive, obsessive-compulsive behavior. Oh, I wish I could still get away with doing that kind of thing. Perhaps eat a whole chocolate cake with my fingers, or [...]

Well, after all my musings on the metaphorical need underneath my craving to get a hug from Amma…
I just had to go back for the real, literal thing.
It seems like it was meant to be. This morning I had a scheduled teleconference for work and it got switched to the afternoon. So I [...]

Today I took Sami to see Amma, a guru from India that I know almost nothing about, except that she hugs people. She comes to DC on an annual basis, and I had heard of her before, but I have never felt motivated to go see her until this year.
I never really [...]

I write to remind myself once again of the importance of lightening up. In the past year, I have literally lightened my body by ninety pounds. Now I feel the call to lighten up on subtler planes. To literally lighten my mind, which carries around so much heavy baggage much of the [...]

I am grateful for the encouragement and support I’ve received on the Mommune Manifesto. I’d like to include some friendly amendments and clarifications to the original vision (which was written at midnight on about 4 hours sleep from the night before).
There was a very insightful comment by a reader on my use of the [...]

I have had a thought, an idea, a dream that has gone off like a cannon in my head today, and won’t leave me alone, and I would like to share it with you.
The Mommune.
I have a dream.
I have a dream of a place where “it takes a village” is real and not a nice-sounding [...]