Discovering Ourselves in the Time of Pandemic When you live with a chronic illness that keeps you bedridden for days at a time you learn…

Yesterday, my book club faced the new reality. We had a phone conference book club meeting. It went surprisingly well. While some chose not to…

My poetry comes from secret messages from nature, from a moment when a sentence, a phrase captures me with its rhythm and the words tumble…

What can we ever give to another more sacred and more loving than acceptance of who they are and what they bring to our life.…

Meister Eckhart was a German theologian, philosopher and mystic. Among his many inspiring sermons and writings he wrote one entitled, “How all Creatures Share an…

New Year’s Resolutions Do you make New Year’s resolutions? That deep-felt sincere intention to do something different, something new or stop something not helpful? The…

A CRUEL MYSTERY             “I will tell you not what you want to hear, but what I know to be true because I have lived…

`It’s raining in my garden. We haven’t had rain in weeks. Sitting here at my computer the sound of the gentle continuous shower nudges my…

It is a strange feeling for an author, a poet, to send her words out into the deep unknowing. Will they touch the intended heart?…

Sometimes things come together in the most exquisite of ways. This happened with Value, a new collection of poems and essays by “Women of a…