New Blog

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While my website is undergoing a re-design, I’ve been posting writing on my blog on Open Salon.  Please feel free to check out articles there.

http://open.salon.com/blog/lkwalker#

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Papa Hemingway

Been reading some of Hemingway’s letters in this month’s Vanity Fair.  He is one of my favorite writers, and one who deeply influenced me.

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Anonymous Words

From the privacy of your own living room or the seclusion of your office, you sit with your computer, glowing its eery blue light.  There is no end to the things you can find on [continued...]

Holy Cadets!

Do you remember what it was like to be in college, 20 years old, and a boy?  Me neither!  But I’m getting a big dose of it this semester teaching yoga at Norwich University.  The oldest military university in the country, Norwich now also has civilians among its students and is about 30 % women [continued...]

Take it Outside

After a long winter, when the sun’s warmth finally melts through the crust of snow, what could be better than shaking off the stagnation of winter and practicing on the fresh green grass?  Take your yoga blanket outside into a warm, dry sunny spot and spread it out.  Let the unevenness of the ground inform [continued...]

Drink Spring!

A yummy and energizing spring cleansing drink – Switchel – is an old folk remedy.  Heavily promoted in the 1950’s by Vermont country physician Dr. DeForest Jarvis, it was a drink first discovered in the [continued...]

Household Chemicals Cause Weight Gain

Throw away the Tide, Palmolive and Fabreze NOW!

It was recently discovered that chemicals known as obesogens, found in things like household cleaners and plastic containers, can impersonate natural hormones that regulate weight and trick our bodies into storing fat; now researchers in Taiwan have come up with a test to identify the culprits.  These imposter [continued...]

Musical Weight Loss Plan

Great Weight Loss Plan:  Write a musical based on the travels of your life with your fiance.  Have a slimy producer steal the idea and turn it into a feature film.  Have your lawyers tell you to put your own show up before his movie opens.  Get together a super group of [continued...]

Independence

Last night I left the barbecue and decided to forgo the fireworks so I wouldn’t have to add an extra 45 minutes to my drive home.  Instead, I stopped by the reservoir and sat at the edge of the water in the fading light.  I could hear the booming cannons, and ricocheting gun fire of [continued...]

Summer

It is the longest day of the year.  Just nine at night.  The birds are singing outside my window.  It is still light out, just the gloaming hovering in the sky.  Soon the fireflies will come out and sparkle across the forest and the lawn.  They blink on and off, off and on.  The blinking [continued...]