Yogis Anonymous

09/05/2025

“…I told him this is the first time in my life I can remember thinking if someone offered me a crystal ball so I could see into the future, I’d say yes. Up until now, I’ve always felt I’d want to be surprised, but at this moment in time, if some crazy way I could see ten years into the future, I’d do it…”

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Yesterday I went to check out a car with my son.

09/04/2025

I am posting this on all my platforms because it is so scary. Parents of teens and young adults please read this, and please be sure your kids are not using ChatGPT as a therapist or confidante. I know grown adults who are doing that. This is one of the most heartbreaking things I’ve read and so very wrong. These kids should still be here.

I'll spare you the worst details, but should AI say don't tell your mom?

08/29/2025

“…All the folks screaming that it’s a mental health issue…the mental health issue is yours. You have the issue. We’re talking about passing common sense gun laws with mental health guidelines. There are currently states that squash bills requiring a 24-hour waiting period to buy a gun. Nope! Can’t have those, either. See the problem? You want to say it isn’t the guns, it’s mental health - but don’t legislate about that, either!”

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Years ago when my kids were tiny, I read them the entire Harry Potter series three times over.

08/22/2025

The hills are alive with the sound of this week’s essay:

My kids are old enough that they drive my car, even my youngest.

08/14/2025

Strange times when you need to state things that shouldn't need to be said:

And other things I shouldn’t have to say

08/09/2025

Why am I writing about this? Well, there’s one way to find out.

Click the Come As You Are link in bio. If you do it at 4:20am or pm you’ll end up on The Dark Side of the Moon, don’t say I didn’t warn you.

This week’s essay is live.

08/08/2025

Yesterday was a dark day for me and I don’t have a lot of dark days. I have days when I feel sad or anxious, of course - but I’m talking about days that feel devoid of hope, where I’m out to sea and everything feels fragile - like I could plummet off the edge of the world. In the past when they happened, they’d happen with my cycle, but I’m in peri-menopause, so there is no cycle I can count on - there’s just mayhem and uncertainty, and flying by the seat of your pants. It’s fun, especially with all the mayhem and uncertainty around us.

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Yesterday was a dark day for me and I don’t have a lot of dark days.

08/02/2025

This week’s essay is full of fury.

Epstein, the EPA, and the dude in my DMs

07/17/2025

There are certain people who love you exactly as you are. In my experience, there aren’t a lot of them, not if we’re talking about people who love you without expectation or demand, without any need for you to be a certain way, or to hide your messy feelings. I’m talking about people who love you unconditionally, whose eyes light up every time they see you, even if it hasn’t been that long since the last time they saw you.

When they speak, you can feel the love pouring through their voice, and if you’re three thousand miles away, it doesn’t matter because sound waves carry their love, through the air, up to the satellite and down to your phone, or however it works - and those love particles go through your ear canal and settle into and around your heart. They keep you safe. It’s science.

I don’t really know if I can write this because I am hurting so much right now, even though I understand this is the way of things. People we love with our entire hearts do not last here on this planet forever. Hopefully when they go, they become stardust, they light up the night sky, and when we look up at the stars, they wink at us. When we’re doing the dishes or driving somewhere, maybe they settle into the ether around us, hoping we can feel them.

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People we don't know how to lose

07/16/2025

If you're feeling like you could use a little extra support these days, maybe this is for you. I haven't done an online month-long course in a while, but now felt like the right time:

If I could have anything in the world I wanted (aside from a sane, compassionate country to live in), I’d whisk us all to a beautiful, wooded, green piece of land where everyone would get their own cabin or house or whatever they needed to feel comfortable.

07/11/2025

One of the things no one mentions when you have kids is how many times you’ll say the words “watch your head!” - or how one day when your child is about ten, you’ll want to beat the pants off have words with a kid named Emmett who doesn’t invite your child to a party - but hands out invitations right in front of him to make sure he knows he’s not invited. Or how it will break something inside of you when your son tells you about it casually with a shrug, but you can see a flash of pain behind his eyes, and the tiniest quiver of his lip. I’m still pi**ed at Emmett (not his stupid name). My kid is long since over it.

There was a mailbox on our block that was placed on the outside of someone’s fence, which is probably a code violation, but I’m not the kind of a-hole who reports her neighbors for things like that. The issue with the mailbox is that it was exactly at the height of my kids’ heads when they were let’s say 2 through 4 years old, meaning it could have taken out either or both of them if they happened to be running or skipping or talking or laughing or roller skating past said mailbox - which of course they did a million times because it’s up the block. I felt, rightly, it was my responsibility to teach them to look out for danger in the world, or things that you might not see until you found yourself flat on your back looking up at the sky, dazed.

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One of the things no one mentions when you have kids is how many times you’ll say the words “watch your head!” - or how one day when your child is about ten, you’ll want to beat the pants off have words with a kid named Emmett who doesn’t invite your child to a party - but hands out invita...

07/04/2025

But at least there's a new presidential line of fragrances!

Even if you vote for it