The Art of Belonging

A couple of weekends ago, I spent a delicious three days with my sons, their partners, and my wonderful little granddaughter, who is not quite two years old. Since we live nearly three hundred miles apart, we had rented a house at a lakeside resort half-way between...

Freedom’s Just Another Word…

I woke up this morning from a convoluted, vividly scary dream where I was wandering, shoeless, on a dark city street in a seedy part of town. It was the witching hour — fading day cast grotesque shadows on dimly lit sidewalks. A nameless, faceless city, made...

Birthday Week Giveaway # 2: You Are a Miracle

My birthday gift for you today is a poem — You Are a Miracle. A reminder of the magical, multidimensional miracle that is You. You are a miracle. Everyone and everything in your life is a miracle too. This gift is offered in two different formats, as a printable...
Happy birthday to…all your creations

Happy birthday to…all your creations

Tomorrow is my birthday. All week, I have dreamed of giving birth, of being born. Birth is a violently propulsive process. The push and thrust, the bloody, messy explosiveness of it – these are pale rumors, grunted intimations of the perilous journey into...