Photographer (and Mama to Baby Arun) Rachel Movitz recently commissioned me to create a blog banner for her. She, her husband and baby Arun are headed back to India tomorrow for 3 months! Despite my book and other work deadlines, I snuck it into my late night schedule because I have had several dreams lately [...]

Hi friends! I hope all is well with you. It’s been awhile since I posted. Been taking a hiatus from the ol’ computer and internet to focus on my book and art and garden. The weather is ultra perfect here, too. I love Fall.
This weekend was the big Bhandara festival at the temple. 108 Hanuman [...]

I’m having fun playing with tshirt designs for the annual Bhandara festival at the Hanuman Temple here in Taos!…trying to do something different than they have in the past–a little more kid-like and playful and less serious.
In Hinduism, Hanuman started off curious, naive and a bit mischievous–he also had superhero-like powers. Once he thought the [...]

I want to thank everyone for visiting our new chai site/blog! It’s really sweet to share our love for these cultures in this way. In case you didn’t stumble upon it, check out the map I made of our route. If you click on all the stars, images and even a video of a Baul [...]

Hi my friends! I am really excited to share that we launched chaipilgrimage.com! YEAH! For those of you who don’t know, a couple years ago, Patrick and I got this fun idea to collaborate on a book combining three things we love so much: India, Nepal and chai. I know it sounds kinda funny, but [...]

We dug in our garden for most of today. Felt so alive. Backbreaking and energizing at the same time. Our greenhouse is busting with little baby seedlings! And Oso, as always, holds down the “chill” vibe in the garden. His name means “bear”, but he’s more like a lion.

I was looking through our India photos [...]

“On October 15th, bloggers around the web will unite to put a single important issue on everyone’s mind -THE ENVIRONMENT. Every blogger will post about the environment in their own way and relating to their own topic. Our aim is to get everyone talking towards a better future.”
I was going to write about organic gardening [...]

We met this man on a dusty road in Chitrakoot, India. I think he overheard us telling some kids how much we loved cows so he ran to us, rambled something in Hindi about his cows and then waved at us (literally, he kept waving) and led us to a building and downstairs to [...]

art by Carla Sonheim
I’m so excited because my good friend Lakshmi (who started Art Seva) and several volunteers are presently in India. And although I was sad not to go with them this time, Carla Sonheim (who i ‘met’ via email some months ago when she stumbled on my website and after reading about Art [...]

I LOVE color. I mean, who doesn’t? I still remember the first time I saw just how much color was in shadows, in a face, or in clouds.
Sometimes I have no idea what I’m doing with it, but I always know when it feels ‘just right’. I love layering transparent colors to [...]