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…
Today marked an ending. Or a beginning. It marked both closure and a new chapter. Today, I got a beautiful cover up tattoo that was twenty plus years in the making. In the Spring of 1992 I was living in London as an exchange student, a longtime dream of mine that almost didn’t happen. When…
Last Friday I hurt myself in Crossfit. It wasn’t as dramatic as it sounds; it didn’t happen during a heavy lifting session or on the pull up bar or anything fancy like that. It was actually quite pedestrian…one of those “dumb” injuries. I was jumping. That’s it. Just jumping. I landed wrong and oh my…
Thoughts on S I L E N C E There is so much chatter these days. The constant chatter of social media. Of news. Of communication that is instant and incessant, our unavoidable reachability. I long for silence. Soft and lush. Tranquil. The antidote to my madness. To our collective scramble. I am working on…
