Freedom and Active Hope

Freedom and Active Hope

Freedom and Active Hope Autumnal Equinox 2025 “It is the responsibility of free [people] to trust and to celebrate what is constant – birth, struggle and death are constant, and so is love…. and to apprehend the nature of change, to be able and...
Living Our Stories

Living Our Stories

Living Our Stories Summer Solstice 2025 “The best arguments in the world won’t change a person’s mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.” — Richard Powers, The Overstory My curiosity these days is wrapped up in exploring...
Nourishing Gratitude

Nourishing Gratitude

Nourishing Gratitude Vernal Equinox 2025 Discerning what life is asking of me is always challenging, especially at significant turning points. I know there’s something I’m not “hearing” when there’s a sense of restlessness and...
Turning Back

Turning Back

Turning Back First published in the 6th and final issue ofHags on Fire, December 2022 While I drive through thick darkness, relief, discouragement, and frustration collide. A brief sense of hope, like a sliver of new moon on a cloud drifted night, accompanies an odd...
On Being and Becoming

On Being and Becoming

On Being and Becoming First published in the March 2023 issue #9 ofHare’s Paw Literary Journal Monarch Butterflies danced in a continuous stream across our yard between June and September 2021. We saw nearly a monarch a day and sometimes several, more than...