I'm already so tyrannized by the thought of having to post on this blog that I can't even think of a title--nevermind coming up with actual content. Well, I guess I can start with the remnant of a conversation that I had with some friends that were over for brunch on Sunday. One of them had suggested that maybe I do a cookbook of healthy recipes that taste really good. I had thought about doing this many years ago when I had my personal training business but just never got around to it. At this time, I don't really feel passionate about spending my time that way so my answer to my friend was, "maybe when I have an abundance of both time and money I'll reconsider it."

And today I thought to myself, what would I do if I had an abundance of both time and money. Here is my list and I encourage you, my army of readers to come up with your own and post it in the comments. I'm very interested in the deep desires of my loyal following. Truly, I am. But for now, here's mine:

If I had an abundance of time and money I would:

* Buy a barn in upstate New York and convert it into a retreat center where I could conduct Feed Your Soul, Feed Your Body Workshops that are a week long for women who need to recharge, revitalize, and reconnect with themselves (don't think I won't be using that as the tagline in my advertising materials because I think it's brilliant)!

* Write long letters of adoration and thanks to all of the women whose work has shaped my being: Martha Beck, Geneen Roth, SARK, Anne Lamott, Robin Posin, Marianne Williamson.

* Go for one month to the Gurudev Siddha Peeth Ashram in India.

* Go to Jim Caruso's Open Mike Night for Broadway Peformers and Everyone else at Birdland on Monday nights.

* Walk over the Brooklyn Bridge

* Make the short film Kill the Cheesecakes that I've wanted to make for the last five years.

* Do volunteer coaching at a local shelter.

* Go back to tap class.

* E-mail Stew, the creator of the musical Passing Strange, nothing in the Broadway theater before or since has ever affected me like this show has and I never got to communicate it to Stew.

* Go to Point Reyes in Cali for a week and just hang out by myself and contemplate and write.

* Go to the Performing Arts Library at Lincoln Center and view all of the Bob Fosse shows that are archived there.

* Read A Remeberance of Things Past by Marcel Proust for crying out loud

Well, I think that's a pretty good start and I can see that there are a couple of things that I don't have to wait to do. I can do them right now. I'll let you know how it goes. And don't forget to make your own list. It's very enlightening.

Last Saturday

I’m still ecstatic over the Feed Your Soul, Feed Your Body workshop I did on Saturday. It was an amazing afternoon with incredible women who came and shared their stories. We came together to talk about the ways we use food for emotional reasons and identify what we really want in those moments--to learn to feed our souls so that we don't feed our bodies when it's not appropriate.

It was such an amazing gift to listen to each woman talk about her issues and see myself in each one of them. I am such a believer in people telling their stories—we all think we’re crazy and alone in what we do when in fact there are lots of other people struggling with the same things only no one talks about it. The tagline for the workshop is "learn to provide yourself with true nourishment that goes beyond bingeing, dieting, and the need to have the perfect body." I realize it's a tall order but I know it's possible and it is my great joy to help the women of the world get off the diet/binge rollercoaster and embrace the amazing, gorgeous, powerful creatures that they are.