by Beryl Bender Birch | Oct 1, 2017 | News
After six days in the Minnesota Boundary Waters and the requisite high fives and the “We did it!” selfie, we pulled out of the water at 9:30AM Sunday morning and got picked up by our outfitters at our designated pick up time of 10AM. Amazing. Six days, 30-35 miles of...
by Beryl Bender Birch | Jan 29, 2017 | News
Imagine that you are a TSA agent. You are a middle aged white male and you voted for Trump. And now you are at work at the airport and you are flooded with demonstrators protesting Trump’s travel ban, yowling at you and clogging up the lines. There is general mayhem...
by Beryl Bender Birch | Nov 14, 2016 | News
Today was a beautiful day for a 4-mile hike in the forests of the Berkshire mountains. The weather, here in Western Massachusetts, was blue bird perfect – clear, sunny, moderate temperature for November. I think a lot of people went hiking or walking or watched...
by Beryl Bender Birch | Nov 10, 2016 | News
Many of you have been tweeting and texting, thanking me for the “words of wisdom” in my blog and Facebook posts yesterday. I appreciate the positive feedback. But some of you have also been asking what I meant by “doing the work.” This doesn’t surprise me. Two years...
by Beryl Bender Birch | Nov 9, 2016 | News
My husband of 24 years died 10 years ago today, November 9, 2016, the day that Donald Trump has been elected, despite many expectations to the contrary, to the presidency of the United States. I have learned that everything changes, that in an instant, that which you...
by Beryl Bender Birch | Sep 5, 2016 | News
My friend and yoga student, Mark Kent, sent me an email the other day with a link to an article in The Atlantic, titled “Are Tote Bags Good for the Environment?” Basically the article points out that “canvas bags might actually be worse for the...
