“Oh you need to say yes a lot!” ­ – Naomi Shihab Nye. An idea can take hold of our lives and not let go, even if we have no clue how to...

Here it is, the first day of the last month of 2016. November disappeared while I finished the first draft of my book while attempting to...

Back in March I read a review of a book with a title much too similar to the working title of my own book. My first reaction was a...

I have been deep into the writing of my non-fiction book, a mid-November deadline lurking at the edge of things. Time has been speaking...

Flowers as they are / in the lotus pond: / My offering to the spirits. - Basho Matsuo. I write, learn, and hopefully grow wiser from what...

This blog is dedicated to the future. “When we express something, express ourselves as to what we stand for, not what we stand against....

"To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest." - Pema Chödrön Traveling for the last...

We humans are fragile, and incredibly strong. We can grab onto familiar yet flimsy habits oh-so easily, and leap almost simultaneously...

“A mystic is anyone who has the gnawing suspicion that the apparent discord, brokenness, contradictions and discontinuities that assault...

“We must risk delight…We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.” - Jack Gilbert, from...