Making Peace with Yoga

Making Peace with Yoga

Relationship status between yoga and me: It’s complicated. Bitter even. Tempestuous. So why the hell did I stand on a yoga mat with 807 people in a public square in Portland, Oregon? It has something to do with smiley-face socks. I first practiced yoga in the B.L., P.M. era: Before Lululemon, Pre-Madonna. In 1973. I was 15, and I learned…

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What Animals Can Teach Us About Love

What Animals Can Teach Us About Love

I will get to the lovesick goat, but not yet. First, let’s talk about cat videos. A few years ago, I attended a conference on using technology for good. At a session about promoting citizenship through the use of the Internet, someone asked the speaker about YouTube. The man said, despondently, that half of YouTube was videos of cats flushing…

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Rewiring Halloween

Rewiring Halloween

I am in the middle of programming my jack-o’-lantern when I begin to really miss my dad. The jack-o’-lantern is made of the usual hollowed-out pumpkin, but this is just the beginning. I am hacking this pumpkin. I am taking a “Halloween hack-o’-lantern” class at a hackerspace at the Hoboken MakerBar. It’s a place where you can learn to make a…

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