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My heart won’t stop aching for the cops shot to death while they were trying to protect the protesters. I think about their families and...

The impervious feeling of youth is a delicious drunk of newness and firsts: first apartment, first true love, first heartbreak; the...

Each year I plan a retreat for my community. This year I am bringing Dr. James Finley to Boulder, CO on September 20, 21 and 22, 2013 to...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Some mornings, most mornings, I wake up with the committee  blaring in my head. There is the usual to-do list, then a tremendous amount...

A box was delivered on Saturday. I had ordered some small French pots for the front porch, anticipating the garden center at Home Depot...

Sometimes it seems so clear; where I am and who I am and what story is unfolding. I had grandparents that slept in separate bedrooms;...

The word snog is a combination made-up word, for which there is not another word, and that’s why it had to be made up. Snog equals snow...

Spiral journals came after that, more poetry and lyrics to songs, short stories about my parents divorce. I swooned over Anis Nin and May...

A couple of days ago I wrote about “A Place At The Table,” a documentary film now in theaters and also on Amazon.com.  This is something...