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Tucked into a quiet Topanga Canyon, then home to artists, musicians, spiritual seekers and rabid vegetarians, was a place called Elysian...

At four my parents divorced and my father relocated to Glacier National Park, which presented a whole different pallet of nature than...

The water is cool in hot desert sun, and she loves the sun, loves how it feels on her skin. This is her world; A mother and father who...

It was soft at first. The words of a small Pakistani girl named Malala who said “educate girls,” and strung together sentences on a blog...

We live in a climate that does not fully support mental health. I am not just talking about the ability to talk to a psychologist or have...

Fear is an old and unwelcome friend that seems to find a way to seep under locked doors like yellow smoke, wrapping its self around me....

English: American Robin in Nest lies on the eggs, picture taken in Ontario Canada (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Nature has everything to...

The chores of Saturday somehow soothe me. The act of putting things in their place marks the ending and the beginning of the cycle. I...

At first it seemed that there was just a pile of stuff on the ledge, nothing particularly orderly and then one day, it was finished. She...

My Closet (Photo credit: kian esquire) Sufficiency: What is enough? A small closet of clothes that can be worn to the office, and a few...

Aldous Huxley, “The Doors of Perception”—I read it when I was seventeen– stories of a consciousness expanded with a psychedelic –the...

“Great morning, isn’t it?” I called out. He smiled without turning. “I believe I can finally put the snow boots away,” he said. We were...

Aside from a few newspaper articles and a couple of magazine pieces (I wrote a piece for Quilter’s Magazine once) and few big blogs like...

One young woman, adorable in her black and white bikini, also wore a grey wool hat. She stood in front of the full-length mirror...

I am not certain if “making the world a better place” is something that we are taught or if it’s something that rises up from within us....

Jackie Robinson swinging a bat in Dodgers uniform, 1954. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Here is something that both of my parents gave to me:...

Twenty-five years ago, tennis was my game. I loved the feeling of getting up early and hitting for an hour before work. I loved the cute...

Enormous in the sky, a full moon cast a glittering ribbon of light upon the dark, black waters, a path that if followed leads you to the...

Bank of America Tower (Photo credit: Wikipedia) How did we get so big? When I was a kid there were local shops where I bought school...

Cover of Ladies of the Canyon Topanga Canyon was a place filled with old homes, built in the 1930’s as resort homes for movie stars. A...