I have been writing stories, in my head, since I was a little girl. At age 34, I published my first novel, in English, not my native tongue. And I haven’t stopped writing since. Here, you will read about Los Angeles, about healing, about grief, about marriage, parenthood, love, food, basically all that I am.
“I instruct my students that the natural state of mind is the main thing: awareness itself. We should not limit that to any particular object of meditation or goal or physical posture, and it has to be brought into everyday life. Of course we try to meditate daily and so forth—sitting, chanting, praying. But I would say that not doing too much is the important…
Hi guys, I hope you are all having a joyful, meaningful, and hopefully re-charging holiday season whether with family, friends, chosen family, or alone. Someone reminded me that winter should be the season for tuning in, resting our bodies, nesting, finding warmth, retrieving from the mundane, from the achieving and – quite opposite from the season’s messages we get bombarded by – from the accumulation…
Lena had begun to increasingly gain speed on her bike, and as soon as she realized she was balancing without training wheels, she threw herself off, straight onto the sidewalk. It didn’t only happen once, but the first time was on an early summer afternoon, not far from Dowses Beach, in Osterville, where she was used to spend every month of July with her family….
The other day, on Instagram (who would have guessed?) my OBGYN, who also just published an amazing, groundbreaking book on menopause, posted a video about how women spend a huge part of their lives identifying with the rhythms of their cycle, which also means spending most of their adult life living by the hormones, the biological drives, and their suppression (avoidance of pregnancy or trying…
Hi guys, how are you? This month’s newsletter, as it appears to have become the norm, will be brief, and straight to the point; I am, again, writing the day before publication. The other day, on my way to some errands I can’t recall, I listened to Air Talk on KPCC, one of my favorite shows. Larry Mantle, the host, was interviewing Dr. Nicholas Kardaras, book author…
Hi guys, How are you? I am writing this only a few minutes before you’ll be reading it, because August seems to have come and gone without me really getting a grip on it. I think this perfectly describes where I am at: in complete surrender. We came back from Italy on August 15th, and the recovery from Covid has been longer than I had…
Hi guys, How are you and how is your summer going? This is possibly going to be the most spontaneous newsletter, my favorite one in a long time, something in between a stream of consciousness and the late-night emails I have been sending to my best friends from Italy, since the beginning of our journey: mostly short sentences, increased punctuation, as to fit in as…
SHi guys, I am writing from Italy, still jet lagged: my eyes closed on the laptop while I thought about how to start this. June has been intense, to say the least, revelatory. Ben was gone most of the time, on tour with Stevie, and despite having a heavy load on my shoulders, between Catherine, the end of the book publicity, and the house, I…
Hi guys, we are at it again, catching up. May has been another whirlwind of a month, how are you? Things on this side of town are bubbling up, I am reaching the final steps to get my food handler license, and hoping to launch the cookie company right in time for Christmas. The cooking classes on zoom have been pure joy to prepare and…
Hi guys, How are you? This month went by so fast and got so insanely busy that I am writing this newsletter on the very last day of it. Today, April 30th, I will be baking and cooking all day for my Farmers Market day tomorrow (please come visit, I will be selling hardcovers of my cookbook at a special Farmers Market price, and presenting…
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