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Jul.29.2010
This week that's what writing has felt like: facing the darkness, not closing my eyes, writing. I invite you to view the results. Chapter 23 of my memoir in progress is up. with warm wishes, Marta Memoir in Progress
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Jul.24.2010
I hear people say that often. One friend said it to me recently, adding, "I just don't have that 'obedience' DNA." But I see how he is utterly dominated by his wife, how she shapes almost his every thought, how he does not dare cross her. He calls that love. Exactly.
I can make the case...
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Jul.22.2010
On July 21, 2010, fourteen middle-aged women and one fearless man hiked to a place called Headquarters Pass, one of the places to enter the Bob Marshall Wilderness. I have a real yen to go into the wilderness, but so far I just skirt around the boundaries.
We weren’t serious backpackers but...
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Jul.21.2010
...if you'd read...
Chapter 21 "Obedience" is up at Memoir in Progress, the ongoing saga of a 20-something Manhattanite, turning her back on writing and the arts, because she gets convinced that yoga/mediation/enlightenment have something more to offer...
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Jul.11.2010
The question that hovers over this book for me -- one I cannot answer, but which I hope the writing will -- is WHY did this person, this young me, stay in this situation. I think it's a question millions of people ask themselves when they look back on certain times in their life...I invite you to...
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Jun.28.2010
Today is a good day. Work is quiet enough that I can write while I'm here, something that hasn't happened for a couple of months. I invite you to read Chapter 17 of Memoir in Progress, Family. I am trying to paint for you a story that took place 20 years ago, perhaps it is a cautionary tale.
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Jun.23.2010
The next chapter of memoir is up, the story of a twenty-something in Manhattan getting drawn in to what will become a cult. How do these things happen to smart, sensitive people? This is the question I write to chip away at...I invite you to read chapter 15, The Hard Kind of Easy at Memoir in...
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Jun.19.2010
I am 53 years old, am a writer, have a husband who loves me and whom I love, a home and animals -- so I've come to a pretty good place all things considered. But I spent a good 20 years in a couple of cults, had anorexia, spent 5 years in a relationship that kept me on a short leash. I write memoir...
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Jun.13.2010
I packed to move into Natvar’s school. It didn’t take long. I threw out every letter Geoffrey had ever sent me, from the very first one declaring his love for me, and put a few boxes of books in storage with my mother. My parents and youngest sister, Agnes, had found a small cottage to rent...
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Jun.08.2010
I felt different after the chant, in the days following. Maybe, I thought, maybe I could look into all this guru stuff more closely. Maybe this is what has been missing. Maybe I have been wrong about what a guru is.
I had been feeling like I’d been wrong about a lot of things for awhile. Peeling...
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