Suffering Succotash

I want to remind you to take care of yourself. Exquisite care. Heroic self-care. It is always important, but especially when you might be feeling grief, loss, sadness, fear or physical pain. It's been a tough couple weeks over here in my world and it has reminded me to make sure I'm doing...

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D’ya need a few pinpricks of light? Here!

It's been a really tough week with a lot of incredibly difficult and sad things happening in the world. Today my friend Celenia Delsol posted this note on my Facebook wall for me, along with a link to a beautiful and uplifting video: "With all the political (and some personal) nonsense that's been...

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Wrestling with Demons

I want to share a short free-write that was my response to the prompt, "wrestle," given in a writing group I'm in. I'll explain why I'm sending this to you after you read it ... In the middle of the night I wrestle the proverbial demons. You know them. The ones who say, “Your shoes are wrong, you...

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