Zen in the City
IlanaDonna
Ilana Arazie is a documentary filmmaker, video producer and blogger. She blogs weekly at her own DowntownDharma.com, which is featured on The Huffington Post and Psychology Today. Arazie is known for keeping a video camera on her person at all times – sometimes in the strangest places – in order to capture footage for her syndicated inquisitive video series, Downtown Diary. Her stories have been featured on the Associated Press, Chicago Sun-Times, Travel Channel, Gawker, Yahoo and other media outlets. She lives in peace in NYC.
Posts by IlanaDonna
Fears Shmears
Jan 22nd
My parents called me a worrywart when I was a kid. It might have had something to do with the fact they allowed me to watch the evening news with them. I was scared for my life! As I grew up, my fear expanded to include things like speaking up More >
Kabbalah Crash Course
Jan 18th
You’d think that with all the hoopla surrounding celebrities who study Jewish mysticism I might have an inkling of what it’s all about. I don’t. What’s more embarrassing is that I was raised Jewish—you’d think that might give me an edge on the topic. Yet I was totally in the More >
Listen Up
Jan 14th
We live in the “Information Age,” which means I’m distracted half the time and not listening to you. (Sorry, Mom.)
Does anyone pay attention to the people he or she encounters daily? For the last six months I’ve tried—and my days haven’t been the same.
“What if every person you came in More >
Inner Peace in the City
Jan 11th
If you’re like me, you need to live in a city with a pulse.
Unfortunately, that pulse too often comes at the cost of high blood pressure. I’m sometimes overwhelmed by New York City’s seemingly endless options of love, careers, and even Thai take out. Many of my friends exist on More >
Shop Girl
Jan 6th
While shopping for a new outfit the other day, I found myself sharing the intimacies of my personal life with a random young woman working at the store. She was helping me pick out an outfit and asked where I planned to wear it. Next thing I knew, we were More >
