hello world

I’m still a 40-something living in my parents’ basement (how sad that they have term for us now — boomerangers!), along with my dog Pooka. Oh, hello! I found a job!  Finally, after a year or so, but who is counting? I started out looking for a journalism job, but since they are disintegrating, and I live in Utah, I took a job as a technical writer for Fusion-io. A couple of months later, I got my dream job — managing social media for Fusion!  I can see the light at the end of the tunnel, which is my own place in Salt Lake City. There’s just that one tiny problem, the debt I’m still carrying from Natural High. Do you know how hard it is to pay off credit card debt? Do you know how stupid it is to put your restaurant’s expenses on a credit card? I guess when your partner says it’s temporary, and you expect to be paid back… I’ll stop that rant now.

I’m on hiatus as a yoga teacher, but I still write occasionally for Yoga Journal.

A little history: after a two-week vacation at the Ann Wigmore Institute in Aguada, Puerto Rico, I decided to leave my Brooklyn brownstone for a beach apartment. I stayed in Puerto Rico for five years. It was like my own version of LOST. Trying to figure out how to leave the island, but always wanting to go back. For the first nine months there, I volunteered for the Institute — an iconic raw food retreat center — working in the garden, growing wheatgrass and sprouts in the greenhouse, and teaching sunrise yoga every day. I wrote a diary about the experience for Slate.

Then, my ex-boyfriend and I got the bright idea to open an organic vegetarian restaurant in Rincon, a surfing tourist mecca. Two years later, I moved to Utah and into my parents’ basement, so you can see how well the restaurant did.

I love yoga (and have taught since 2003), cooking, food, wine, gardening, good design, chanting, meditation, swimming, surfing, hiking, dogs, blossoms, fruit off the tree, designing jewelry, Thievery Corporation, and sprouts. And lately can’t stop listening to Neko Case and Wah!

I used to live in the West Village, in Manhattan; in San Francisco; in San Jose; in Los Angeles; and Montevideo, Uruguay.  I started in San Pedro, Calif.  I love the ocean, traveling somewhere new, watching meteor showers, and all kinds of other things I will probably mention someday.