Seeing life more clearly

May 21, 2011
Tears are words the heart can't express. My writing exercises last week brought me back deep into my past, deeper than I've been in a very long time. The memories...

Do we consciously create our lives?

May 18, 2011
We're working on desire lines this week in memoir workshop and it's started me thinking about what I've really wanted in my life.When I moved to California in 1984, I...

The Rapture’s coming. This week.

May 17, 2011
Live it up while you can this week... There's a lot going on this year--the Bible says this is the year the world will be destroyed.That's right. Here's how it lays...

What Easter teaches us

April 24, 2011
Here's what Easter teaches us:That nothing comes easy. There's a sacrifice, big or small, for everything achieved in life, and sometimes we have to die to old ways in...

Palm Sunday: the myth, the magic of Christianity

April 17, 2011
"Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried,Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord."~John 12:13~ Well,...

Sister wives? How about "brother husbands?"

April 15, 2011
One does not truly love a person yet seek to enslave himby law or by bonds of dependency or possessiveness.-Harry Overstreet, the Mature Mind I'm still a fan of...

Sit with it: adapting to change

April 10, 2011
a Art by Katie Daisy A very astute reader posted a comment on last week's post bemoaning bookstore closings and fearing for literary development. He had some good...

The promise of rebirth, renewal, reinvention

April 6, 2011
A few days of super-warm weather and trees that were barren last week are already clad in their spring green.This is a lovely, almost canopied road I travel often. Last...

The Zen of ironing

March 27, 2011
No, that's not me. It's not Hillary Clinton, either.The other night I did some ironing. Nothing major: cloth napkins, tablecloths, pillow cases.The hiss of water in...

The lost art of being in the moment

March 20, 2011
Twice a week I take an hour-long exercise class with a group of women who are probably a decade or more younger than I. They're raising teenage kids, know one another...

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