I love birds, including this one. Lately, I've been finding myself (and several of my friends) angry about how the world has been working. For us as
When you don’t have words…
say it another way.Sometimes forming essays that contain a beginning, middle, and end feels incredibly limiting, and not on target with what I'm
weaving the www
With the wild west, a personal party, and thoughts on the web as a woman's medium.Women's work, I've been told by more than a few wise souls,
Focus: Forgiveness
I've been struggling for awhile forgiving a boundary breach by a loved one.And I've been under the delusion that I need a complete forgiveness to
non-shop adventures and the underappreciated art of window shopping
Here's a little story about non-shop adventures and participating in your local economy even when you aren't flush with currency. It's like
Writing for focus & fittings
Who else makes things for the sake of focus? In my world, the process of writing gives me a coherent sense of thought, a long and lovely sound of
Release the Patriarchy
I have a social activist friend who occasionally warns folks what words folks should use in everyday conversation. Two words in question: army and
invoking dignity
This is another Term of Endearment post.A friend brought this to my attention by recommending this book: Dignity: It's Essential Role in Resolving
On making love, not war, and the silent majority
When I first heard Double Fantasy at 11, I knew I'd heard something new. A collaboration with two unique voices: one from the West, one from the East.
“Came by it honestly”
Fiction vs non and protecting people and privacy while writing.My mother in law used this expression a while back and I found it immediately
when practicality looks like magic: 222
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" -Arthur C. ClarkeYears ago I was contracted to coordinate and improve the
A Visual Peace: Art as Alchemy
Creative work is alchemy. It is an honest process, that sometimes culminates something that can touch the honest places in other people too.Art,
Long a$$ rambling tax ‘tip’
Hi Friends,The 2025 tax code allows filers to write off up to 25K in tips as long as their adjusted gross income isn’t above $150,000 ($300,000 if
Why try bird’s eye?
On the art & science of mapping, and our physical positioning in relationship to the places we depict.Maps may have come about, in part, to
practice makes a practice
Doing things and making things makes me feel alive. So to practice feeling alive, I need to be in motion, or at least making something for the sake of
Living Legacy™ and loving turns of phrase
I love turns of phrase, especially those that are, by their nature, contradictory. Living Legacy is one like this. Legacy, by definition, has to do
Audience
A term of endearment post.If you can feel positioning and motion inherent in words, then you may also experience how your point of view can flip
Most Recent Visual Art
I make visual art on Instagram when prose just can't hold the message.
fun with official photos
This is the first post of a series called What Did You Learn And How?1 (WDYLAH)This series is inspired by Oprah Winfrey's frequent call out to a
Perspicacious: a term of endearment
I heard this word for perhaps the first time in a podcast, and fell in love.The word delighted me because it condensed into one word what I'd
Wonder
[originally published as newsletter on 11/24/2025]I've come to know that we can experience beauty and wonder in everyday life by tapping childhood
Generational Curse Breaking for an Everyday Lady
Disclaimer: in order to do this, you don't actually have to be a lady. I am case in point.I'm also not recommending you believe in curses per se,
Ai Ai (for now)
[Update 12/21/20255] I've stopped using AI as an administrative tool, because, it is has been more trouble than it has provided innovative solutions,
Life is a feeling
One of my teachers1 said the title of this post with great authority, and it gave me pause. How could life be a feeling, I wondered, isn't life a
What do you call utopia?
With Sunday Morning Hope by David Byrne and Patti SmithI don't care for the word utopia. I feel it's been so overused for so long that my
Regress, or Congress?
In 2016, I wrote letters to a number of GOP Senators asking them to hold the line against the destructive tendencies of Trump. It seemed clear that
Stone Soup
Email Newsletter published 11/4/2025 is here.
One-Third School, Two-Thirds Sky
I've had so many things on my mind lately, and much of it related to the sky: blues, clouds, galaxies, light and dark matter, and accelerating
In (and out of) Service
[Originally published as newsletter on 11/11/2025]My Dad is a Veteran. He served our country in a regimented way to protect democracy. Practically, he
What I know about marketing
Good marketing is not a getting activity. It's a giving one.To do marketing well, you must give first. And give often to new people.And I
Road Songs, Libraries, and Hard Work Hassles
After dropping my 15 year old at drivers ed, I drove around listening to classic rock and landed at the library.Before I forget, Bob Seeger is an
Here’s my story (and I’m not sticking to it)
I've been in between things for some time now. Like in my career. And it is glorious. I mean, literally glorious. Each day feels like an adventure, my
Time Travel
[ Originally posted as Newsletter on 10/21/2015 ]Good morning,I'm at the airport with 20 minutes to get this out to you.I love flying
Polarity: a mechanism of expansion
My father, a man of few words to me, once said our culture was bipolar. His colleague provided a wide-eyed surprised look and consenting chuckle. I
What changes when you have kids
So yeah, this avant-blog has the word "mom" in it, which probably makes you think that somehow it's going to be all beautiful beige housekeeping tips,
Annnd today, there’s peace-ish in the Middle East
[originally published in newsletter on 10/14/2025]My friend is dying and everyone except a rogue lung doctor is doing their job. Well, actually
Anchors Away
There was a time when women undergoing spiritual transformation could take a vow of stability of place, and hole up – practically – in a cell in a
What’s your story? Mythic or Mundane?
[originally published as newsletter on 9/30/2025]There's a good deal of talk in self-development circles about the stories we tell ourselves. That we
