This evening I got on the best subway car ever, heading for the workshop I was to give at the Integral Yoga Institute downtown. I saw the guy with the guitar, but this fellow was no mere troubador. Instead of just playing and singing, he was conducting a rousing music trivia contest, promising $2 to…

This evening I was blessed with a house blessing—well, condo blessing: a space clearing ritual performed by Donna Henes, “Mama Donna, the Urban Shaman.” We’ve lived here nine months, the longest I’ve gone without a house blessing in the past twenty years. It was past due. When I called Mama Donna, she suggested this date because…

I had the best night. William and I got our Dick Gregory tickets a month ago, as soon as I made a wrong turn on Broadway and saw in the window of Caroline’s on Broadway that he’d be performing. He was funny and brilliant and poignant: almost every joke had a message inside, i.e., “Strange,…

I’ve had a jam-packed day. Sometimes I think the best way to write this blog called “Your Charmed Life” is just to share about my charmed life. First: thanks to everyone who posted comments or wrote to me with condolences about the death of my glorious dog, Aspen. Your kindness means so much, and I…

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