***I own a large old house in a midsized Southern city, and have converted the lower floor to a yoga and wellness retreat, complete with hot tubs in the garden.
*** I am practicing meditation every day.
*** I have a weekly column for the local newspaper.
*** I have pitched a yurt on the Haw River in North Carolina and holed up to write, soaking in my riverside hot tub or huddling around my cozy woodstove when it gets chilly.
*** I have studied yoga more intensively, and eventually am certified to teach.
*** I am in graduate school earning an M.F.A. in Writing.
*** I am out of the daily office grind and have taken my work freelance.
*** I am traveling around the world, including : a) along the Danube River through Eastern Europe, into the Black Sea, and to Istanbul; b) to southwest China, c) to Russia, including Mongolia, Kareliya, and Siberia; d) Croatia and Montenegro; and e) Fiji and the South Pacific.
