Spend Less, Appreciate More: A Few of My Favourite Things
The other day I dragged my two-year-old daughter on a lengthy series of errands. She protested in the beginning — “Playground! Playground!” — but once the first storeowner slipped her a black cherry lollipop, she warmed to the idea of making the rounds. “Another store?” she’d ask conspiratorially as we walked back to the car.
Are You Doing Your Art?
I never planned on being an Alexander Technique teacher (neither did FM Alexander; he started out as an actor). I was going to be a writer, which was where I had aptitude, where there was flow and promise, facility and praise. But at a certain point in my health crisis, the pain relief and tremendous healing I found from the Alexander Technique seemed more real, and certainly more important, than my previously held career plan.