Turnip says: During the second session of my Meditation for Health course, we passed around a bottle of hand sanitizer and a stack of napkins. From under her chair the leader pulled a plastic bag full of kiddie-sized raisin boxes. Over the course of the next thirty minutes, she talked us through a mindfulness practice [...]
Archive for June, 2010
raisin meditation
Posted in Health, Uncategorized, tagged branding, meditation, raisins on June 28, 2010 | 2 Comments »
a lesson in tipping
Posted in Restaurants, Travel, tagged E.A.T, organic on June 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Stag writes, “Tip”, I learned recently, was historically a shorthand for “To Insure Promptness”. Now, however, it means the obligatory 15-20% and hovering hosts, bus boys, and servers who flit and flutter around your dining table. The problem with tipping is not the cost (god knows they work for it) but that the dining experience [...]
the art of eating in airports
Posted in Travel on June 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Stag says: Here’s the thing: I love airport food. I say this as I wipe croissant flakes from my chin, sitting cross-legged on gray carpet in the JFK airport lounge. Wrappers of jube jubes at my feet. I know people who work hard to maintain their healthy lifestyle on long-haul flights. They study the choreography [...]
cherries!
Posted in Family, tagged cherries, chutney, harvest, Not Far From the Tree on June 12, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Turnip says: In ten years I’ve never witnessed a harvest like this. Usually we have aphids, who clump the leaves together with sticky webs and fall down your shirt when you visit the composter in that corner of the yard. Usually the cherries ripen reluctantly and are prohibitively sour until the evening we decide, “tomorrow [...]
love, in eight courses
Posted in Love n' Sex on June 1, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Stag says: My parents fell in love over cotton candy at the CNE, married a year later, and produced four children. Easy. But that was then. It’s true that food has been an intricate part of courtship, but at a couple of parties I went to recently, over a few boozy conversations it became evident [...]
