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Medium.com • 10th June 2024

The Earth finally Drags the “Black Mamba” Home

Though he’d made prominent missteps, when Kobe Bryant’s helicopter fell from the sky Sunday, he was basketball’s most impressive ambassador. When he joined the LA Lakers at age 18 in ’96, he was the youngest NBA baller ever. He was always poised,...
The Gallup Journey • 4th April 2017

How to Spend a Day at the Very Large Array, The Gallup Journey, April 2017

The “VLA” isn't like a lot of other attractions you see in New Mexico. It says nothing about the history of Native Americans—or the Europeans who came here in 1598, but the Very Large Array definitely looks toward the past--it gazes so far back it...
Glasstire • 4th September 2020

Who's Afraid of David-Jeremiah?

Offerings, David-Jeremiah’s installation at Janette Kennedy Gallery in Dallas, consists of six bulky, black forms about chest high in a dimly-lit space, deep in the bowels of The Cedar’s South Side on Lamar building. Air can be heard spinning into...
Thrive Global • 18th May 2018

Women in the Yoga Industry: The First Flash, Thriveglobal.com, May 2018

Yoga's been female-dominated for decades. Of course, India formed yoga thousands of years ago, and men managed the whole shebang there, but in 1893, yoga came West and fell almost completely into women’s hands. In good capitalist mode, some pioneers...
Prasana Yoga Blog • 30th May 2023

Bad American! Eric is booted Back to Bali

After yoga-lecturing around Bali, I popped back to Perth, Australia on October 14th. I love Aussie immigration. You poke your passport in a friendly kiosk. It flashes a welcome green. You stroll through saloon-door scanners. A guard smiles warmly...
Party Tussles in the Alligator State • 10th August 2018

Paper Cuts: Faulty Filing Kills 3 Florida Campaigns

Paperwork can kill a campaign. A political run is first born as a passing notion in the mind of an office-seeker, but its public birth is the paperwork-packed process of registering for candidacy. In past years, getting the state’s qualifying...
Medium • 25th January 2021

Then He Dies

At 61, he had no bald spot or grey hair. His health was radiant — he biked to work all his life and had taken up running these last 10 years. Cycling in Portland, he blacked out, broke a neck-bone in the crash, and failed to breathe for nine...
Mantra Yoga + Health Magazine • 16th December 2014

Vishnu: Secret Badass Warrior, Mantra Yoga + Health Magazine, December 2014

I always thought the god, Shiva, was the cool one:  Hanging out in Burning Man grunge, playa dust all over his bod, a snake bejeweling his neck, and unshaken by the goddess, Shakti’s, seductress dance. That said, I’m trying to get away from him. Away...
30th May 2023

Last of the Great Global Yoga Teachers, TKV Desikachar, is Dead at 78

Tirumalai Krishnamacharya Venkata (“TKV”) Desikachar, who was trained as an engineer but became a world-renowned proponent of Yoga Therapy, died August 8th at 2:45am in Chennai, India. If there was a Mt. Rushmore of yoga, Desikachar’s face would be...

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