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So I'm in Yoga class. We're in a semi circle and our mats are pretty and the sun is just coming up. It's a beautiful day at the beach. The pagoda overlooks the slowly moving glassy sea as the waves wash gently up and make a soft, enjoyable background noise. The breeze is perfect.

The yoga teacher's got some new age music playing. And there is the sound of a distant child laughing. It's a great day for yoga.

She tells me to find my focus point. My focus is doing great. I'm getting into every po… Continue

Hi - Dunno if y'all er headed that way er not, but muhblog's out yonder. Yumptoo er not? Skay.

It's my birthday. And it's an odd thirty-something birthday.

So the question is:

Should I celebrate or mourn?

I am now at the age that was the exact middle of the "average life expectancy" numbers for females when I was born. I think the average life expectancy may have quadrupled (along with the size of the average human body) over the last 30 years, but it is still a bit sobering.

I looked back at my life and reckoned it - looked honestly. And I have done p… Continue

It took me a few weeks to start spotting them, but I found them.

The gringos here are superhumanly hot. It's freaky. Gorgeous people walking around among us like normals. Tall, windswept and exactly like those people on the covers of romance novels... only REAL. I didn't think the premises in those pulp books were even remotely logical (yeah right, the gorgeous blond french chef with his own restaurant in a quaint seaside resort town is gonna outside with the construction crew in the hot sun AN… Continue