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In Her Own Sweet Time: Unexpected Adventures in Finding Love, Commitment and Motherhood
At thirty-one, Rachel Lehmann-Haupt thought she had everything: the perfect boyfriend, an exciting career, and the promise of marriage and children in her future. But one year later, the relationship ended and she found herself starting over, consumed by a rapidly approaching deadline: age thirty-five, the dividing line between a regular and a “high risk” pregnancy.
Faced with the pressure of finding true love on the edge of her fertility, Lehmann-Haupt traveled around the world and into the heart of America to explore the many new choices available to women in the twenty-first century—egg freezing, single motherhood, and instant families—while also grappling with her own ambitions, anxieties, and personal values. A witty, poignant, and profoundly honest account of one woman’s efforts to reconcile modern love with modern life, In Her Own Sweet Time will resonate with a huge generation of young women who want it all—a career, a family, the perfect partner— but haven’t figured out yet how to fit it all together.
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Airplane Yoga:
Your Emergency Safety Manual for Relieving In-flight Stress
On a recent Saturday afternoon, Bess Abrahams, yoga travel goddess extraordinaire found herself on a stage at The New York Times Travel Expo demonstrating "airplane yoga" to a large group of devoted tourists eager to find ways to take the stress out of a long flight. In between the Chinese dancers promoting a new hotel and the South Pacific drummers in lacquered masks and grass skirts, Bess demonstrated emergency saftey card savy yoga for the air - Landing Light Breathing, Mile High Head Tilts, and Runway Spinal Rolls - to help calm flying jitters and sooth stressed muscles. Show goers sampled scuba gear and dove into a plastic pool to win a free trip to Jamaica to the sounds of a steel drum band and swaying paper palms; then stopped by the stage to become airplane yogis. They loved the idea of a pocket size book of poses that they could take with them in carry-on. A few weeks earlier, Bess sat on a corner of 46th Street and 6th Avenue during the morning rush hour seated in a set of airplane seats occupied by two Fox News anchors. In between rambunctious reports she showed weary travelers how to twist themselves into relaxation, and try a Meal Tray Mediation.
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