Kari Neumeyer

$37 at the pump I’m doing really well at biofeedback. Today I made the little red and green lines match up, even though when I first stood up, the right neck muscle was way higher than the left one. But since leaving her office today, I find myself unable to correctly position my head. IContinue reading

He had me at Salsa Most of my readers can skip this one, cus I know you don’t watch So You Think You Can Dance. I don’t really have an opinion about Ryan’s head spinning freakish breakin’. But I so loved his first salsa routine, much the way I liked Jamile’s ballroom dancing. Cus theyContinue reading

Paper jam from hell It’s almost too much of a cliche not to write about. I had never had a paper jam in the two-year history of my printer. Last week, when I was sending out submissions to literary agents, it was being a little crotchety, but no big deal, it seemed to be aContinue reading

A point of light in my heart I enjoy telling people that I am non-spiritual, and I know celebrities have moved on to Kabbalah (or maybe I’m so behind the times that’s already out), but I am so digging Deepak Chopra’s Soul of Healing Meditations CD.

Thanks, Katrina Without you, I would have had nothing to do at work today.

The Fugees You all know that I’m not actually so shallow as to think my bad pad thai experience in any way compares to the madness that’s happening along the Gulf Coast, right? Looking at tsunami devastation a few months ago made me wonder if natural disasters are just earth’s way of regenerating itself. YouContinue reading

No street wokker Had another bad pad thai experience. Ordered pad thai and thai ice tea at a “Vietnamese” restaurant. All the other vegetarian dishes (which included a barbecued pork appetizer) were labeled spicy and had vegetables I didn’t think I could chew. The waiter asked “how spicy?” I said “not spicy at all,” doingContinue reading

What would you take? If I had time to pack, I’d take my plastic file box, some of the books I haven’t read, photo albums and picture frames. If I had to be evacuated by boat out of my second-floor apartment, it would be just me, my laptop and Emerald.

A family that meditates together… Yesterday Rob and I went to Tibet Fest at the Seattle Center. Cus, y’know, we’re Buddhist. We were watching some Tibetan dancing, and I was thinking about the booth selling cupcakes to benefit Tibetan orphans. In between bites of pad thai (which the food court lady was making with Hunt’sContinue reading

And I’m going to be thirty! In six weeks. I must be excited about it, or scared, because I keep mentioning it. It’s a big deal, right? I’m sad that Chelsea feels bad about her impending 29th…not that I think she has any reason to. My whole life, at about this time of year, myContinue reading