What is fundamental to our human nature? This question has many answers. Thupten Jinpa, author of A Fearless Heart: How the Courage to Be Compassionate Can Transform Our Lives, contends that compassion is at the heart of who we are. Join me for an informal, monthly study of Fearless Heart this fall beginning Tues., Sept. 12 after my Yoga for Healing class at Villager Yoga, which ends at 7pm. We’ll share a light, potluck dinner and the first time we’ll get organized. We’ll tak

I just read a wonderful book about a father’s firsthand account of his young daughter Zoe's struggle with cancer. And I don’t think it’s a spoiler to say there is a happy ending. Falling: A Daughter, a Father, and a Journey Back by Elisha Cooper is a beautiful memoir of a father’s love for his daughter and how unmoored he feels by this seriously unfair, life threatening illness. Cooper is funny, honest, and wholehearted in taking us down their family’s path to recovery and I