Today I was reading through all these articles on a website called ehow where there are hundreds of ‘how to’ articles on every subject. So I thought I would write a very informative and helpful article about something that I have become an expert on since I have been in India. How to make grilled [...]

[Read more →]

Tomorrow we are going for a short (maybe one or two days) time to Bangalore. We need to pick up some essentials to take with us back to the ashram. Plus there is supposed to be a great sale on some of that beautiful Indian materials. We want to stock up because you can not [...]

[Read more →]

I just have to tell you all that I am having such an interesting time here in India. Apparently monsoon season is coming early this year and that means frequent storms.
I just thought I would write a quick post to tell you I really wish I had a recorder to tape the sound of the [...]

[Read more →]

Today is Wednesday so it is pennier (I have no idea how to spell it) in green sauce for dinner. Gross, gross, gross. I always look forward to Thursdays here at the ashram because for lunch they make what they call tomato rice. I call it Spanish rice. It is exactly like Spanish rice and [...]

[Read more →]

Well last Saturday was my first trip away from the ashram since I’ve been here. We went to Bangalore for the day. I was happy to go because I wanted to go grocery shopping and get a bunch of food. But the truth is that I really do not like Bangalore. It is just too [...]

[Read more →]

I have been thinking all day about posting about the animals that are all around here, at the ashram. But specifically about the monkeys. (Click on the images for bigger pictures)
Why? Because they are so funny. They are very brave, will steal things out of your hands, take things from you and not give it [...]

[Read more →]

So I have not been able to tell you about my first trip to India yet…so finally here it is. I have been trying to decide how to share all the information with you. So what I am going to do is first give just an overview of my whole trip, then I will do [...]

[Read more →]

I have been a night owl lately. One of the many things that I have been doing in preparation for going to the Ashram in India is a lot of meditating (yes - I am one of those people :). Marius and I have been doing meditations from 1AM-3AM every night for about one month [...]

[Read more →]