This morning I sat quietly listening to the rain, feeling wet tears on my face, and I rested with Mary Oliver for a while. Her words. Her spirit. Making sense of the world. Speaking to me, breaking it down, putting it together. The world lost a giant today. If you are unfamiliar with her poetry,…
The first full week of the year is almost on the books! For me, it’s been a bit of a slow start. And I’m (perhaps uncharacteristically) ok with that. Usually I am so gung-ho. I come out like gangbusters into the new year, signing up for this class or that, making lists and committing to…
Oh, this year. This year! 2018. One I’ll never forget. Full of twists and turns and sadness and unexpected-ness and upset and horror and grace and pure, magic joy. We all struggled through a lot of shit this year. We lost people. We fought. We called out perpetrators. We made mistakes. We loved and hated fiercely. We…
It has been quite a moment in time here in California. The mass shooting in Thousand Oaks and then into all this. As the fires still rip, an ominous vibe hangs in the air. People are shaken, disquieted. Here in the Central San Fernando Valley, the air is heavy and so are my lungs. That…
I need to dump it all out. This Kavanaugh stuff has been getting under my skin all week. I know I’m not the only one. I didn’t mean to start a big thing with my Facebook post today. But I couldn’t be silent about it anymore. Why didn’t she report? Why didn’t she report??? There’s…
Every once in awhile you get to narrate a book that is so up your alley that you can’t believe you’re actually being paid to read it. Such was the case this summer when I got to voice this important book by Heather Anne Wise. A Gut Feeling, just released on audio by Vibrance Press, is all…
