Practicing Yoga; Practicing Peace

I have been practicing yoga fairly regularly for almost two years now.  I’ve  thrown up in class, come to terms with my own lack of strength, my pitiful flexibility, and I’ve reveled in the fact that my balance is way better than most of the middle-aged women in class alongside me, so long as I [...]

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A Media Oversight?

It’s been about a week since the final Presidential Debate of 2008, which was not so much a debate as a structured exchange of personal attacks between John McCain and Barack Obama.  Media pundits immediately speculated as to whether McCain’s aggressive wit–”If you wanted to oppose George W. Bush, you should have run in 2004″–would [...]

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Living with War in Watertown

This morning I was reading a section of Nancy Welch’s Living Room (2008),a pedagogical theory book that tackles the task of teaching public writing and writing as resistence in the post-9/11 era of government infringement on intellectual freedom. One of the “success stories” Welch mentions is a new coffee house in my hometown, Watertown, [...]

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