Your Survival is a Gift. Will You Open It?
Someone close to me is going through a break-up right now. As we were visiting the other day, I offered that while this was a time of breaking apart, it …
Confessions of a Giver
I write poetry to express something sanctioned syntax won’t convey. Here’s an example of something I have written recently, while pondering my natural instinct to give.
How Not To Set Resolutions: A Guide for Your Creative Self
I was recently asked how I set intentions. See, I don’t do resolutions.
The way I feel and see, resolutions are hard-edged, judgmental – likely to cause cuts and bruises.
I don’t need more of those, so I have another approach.
Intentions have an expansiveness to them, a soulfulness. I like them better, and I get to because there’s no right way to be a human.
It’s Not You, It’s the Equipment
Nine months ago, my husband bought me a mountain bike for my birthday. Since then, we’ve spent more time than ever before on bike rides. On weekends we enjoy tooling …
How I Learned Creativity is Not My Back-up Plan
“You are very creative,” my teachers, my friends, my extended family members used to say to me as a very young girl. It was one of my first official labels. …