Before Women’s History Month 2018 ends, I thought I’d contribute this chapter in the Jogbra story. It is a revision of one that appeared earlier. So often I get asked to tell this tale. Here’s a part of it. Early “Jockbra” We’d done it. Polly and I had transformed my idea into a reality: we … Read More
True Beauty and Plastic
What do sea glass and Hellmann’s Mayonnaise have in common? I grew up eating Hellmann’s Real Mayonnaise (which my mother pronounced “my-O-nayz”) and Gulden’s Spicy Brown Mustard. They came in glass jars. As did Heinz Tomato Ketchup. And every other condiment I can think of at the moment. No more. I’ve looked and looked. One … Read More
The Fraud & The Seeker
Give me a bathing suit and point me towards ocean surf. No boards, please. That was, and still is, my idea of being “active.” But in my mid-twenties, living in Vermont, no ocean was nearby. I started running and found my land-based equivalent of active joy. My running never grew into a desire to compete. … Read More
Cosmology not Cosmetology
B E A U T Y C O S M O L O G Y not Cosmetology In our culture today, aesthetics are trivialized. Glamour has replaced true beauty. We revere the illusory and, too often, ignore that which is truly beautiful. Think Hollywood vs. the Atlantic Ocean; television vs. sunset. What do we pay … Read More
Natural Beauty
The natural world is often a human being’s first introduction to and relationship with external beauty – the True Beauty without. In our current urban-central, agri-business world, unfortunately, too many people develop only a “nodding basis” with the natural world. Sadly, it is no longer a central reference point for the culture. Yet our instinctual … Read More
Life as a Vibrational Power Node
So I am a vibrational node. Endings and beginnings – of years, of relationships, of anything really – are fertile times for reflection if we allow them to be. And I am a thinker, in my head naturally, so this time of year is a particularly ripe season for me. And this is what I’ve … Read More