Today, I cried at the nearby mercado here in Oaxaca, Mexico, when I tasted the blue-corn tortillas with huevos con rajas verdes. I’m no foodie and...
The Five-Star Plate
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“Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.”
—John Burroughs
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Pursuit of Meaning, from intangible to scientific.
- Spiritual Writing
- Sermons
- Biblical
- Wellness
- New Age
- Scientific Writing
- Classics: Blake, Milton, John Donne, etc.
- Myths and Totems
- Philosophical Underpinnings
The Split Mind of Postpartum Depression
(Originally appeared April 2018 in Motherwell. To check it out and more, click here.)In a quiet, distant voice I tell my husband Mark that I want to...
Quality Time
April 9, 2021 Today I flew out for a performance, one of the first in person (masked, socially distanced) performances I will be doing live in about...
Green Mountain Trail
Isolation has always been my love language, but as soon as I’m stationed overseas (which happens A LOT) or told to social distance, I’m compelled to...
Why I Never Had Babies
I started babysitting when I was in the 7th grade. I sat with older children, though truthfully, there wasn’t much sitting involved. I mostly played...
We Are Writers
Here early in this new year, I’m thinking of how much 2020 asked of us, not only in our day-to-day lives but in our writing lives as well. As I’ve...
Speaking for Farmers
Did He Know? Did We Know? (For farmer Gajendra Singh who hanged himself in 2015, and for the six farmers of Mandsaur, India, killed by the police...
AND STILL WE RISE
Hearing stories recently from so many young black men and women picked at emotional scabs from invisible wounds accrued over the years. We — meaning...
How to Put on Your Big Girl Panties for the Pandemic
So, I’ve been traveling in a pandemic for eight months because this was the year to write full-time and finally leave America with Trump behind....
Humanity’s Super Power – Part I
Writers at Large (W@L) came to me by climbing through the basement window—not walking through the front door. Three highly unlikely, unrelated,...
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