Hi Reader ~ Can you believe it's already July 15th? More than halfway through 2026. I've been reviewing the year, and realized that I'm pleased. The year has moved the way I hoped it would; steadily, purposefully, with a few wonderful surprises along the way. Here's one of them: the five stories in The Visible and The Invisible series will be brought together as a single complete volume this fall. The book cover is being done now, and I can't wait to see the designer's ideas and share them...
5 days ago • 2 min read
Read And Comment Online Lurking in the shadows of our lives is a fear—and a resistance—to showing up. And yet, since we are here on earth, we agreed to show up. Not just as a person who takes up space, or who treats life as something to endure, but showing up to the something that you, and only you, are here to do. You Already Know I know—you might tell me you don’t know why you showed up, or what you’re supposed to do now that you’re here. And I have to disagree, as politely as possible. If...
16 days ago • 5 min read
Read Online The day after we moved into our house, a turtle came to visit. I was in bed. Exhausted. Wrung out from everything it had taken to buy and move into this house. But when Del told me that there was a turtle at the front door, I pulled myself up and walked to the steps. We looked at each other, the turtle and I. There was no logical explanation for why a large turtle was sitting at my front door. So I did the only sensible thing — I got quiet and listened. “Slow and steady.” That’s...
29 days ago • 3 min read
Hi Reader ~ I have wonderful news! I finished the fifth story in The Visible and The Invisible series. It's called Second Sight (hint: it's a play on words), and next month I'll let you know when it's available on my Shopify store — earlier than anywhere else, just for you. But first— June. June begins the season of tending what is already growing. Here in Northeast Ohio, it's drier than normal again this year, which means watering has been added to the daily list of garden tasks. And I have...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Read Online We name our squirrels. Harry Peanut was a young gray squirrel with a bounce in his step and a very particular way of approaching a peanut; examining it, turning it, deciding. But the thing I remember most about him is that he was a leader. Every day, I watched Harry climb the dogwood in our front yard, leap through the air to catch a thin branch of the maple, sometimes hanging upside down for a long second, then run through the tree to wherever he was going next. He didn’t do it...
about 1 month ago • 5 min read
Read And Listen Online I never thought I’d become a mall walker. But this past winter, when the weather turned ugly, and I needed somewhere to move my body before my early-morning Zumba and aerobics classes, I found myself joining the quiet parade of people circling the mall before the stores opened. And what I found surprised me. A community. On my first day, everyone nodded and waved. The silent, universal welcome of people who share a ritual. Months later, I know some of their names. I...
2 months ago • 3 min read
Hi Reader ~ May always feels like the month the world finally exhales, doesn’t it? It’s one of my favorite months of the year! I am busy getting everything in the garden planted before summer, and I find myself out there at odd hours, just watching things grow and change. There’s a quiet magic to it that never gets old. And speaking of things that have been quietly growing — I have exciting news! Not In Time, the fourth book in The Visible and The Invisible series, is now available on my...
2 months ago • 2 min read
Read And Listen Online Mother’s Day is a day that everyone can celebrate because everyone has had a mother. But it could be so much more than flowers, brunch, and cards. It could be the day we pause and honestly ask: How well am I mothering the people, places, and ideas in my life? Because here is the quiet truth most of us forget: every one of us is a mother. Yes, everyone. Mothering does not belong to a gender, an age, or even just to living things. Mothering is a quality of consciousness....
3 months ago • 4 min read
Read And Listen Online You’ve seen them everywhere. Storage units. Places to store our stuff — the stuff we aren’t using, the stuff we’re afraid to throw away, the stuff we have no idea what to do with, so we keep it. We pay for it to sit there. Perhaps never to be seen again. But here’s what haunts me: Life Storage isn’t just a place for furniture and forgotten boxes. It’s also where we store our dreams. Where we quietly tuck away the life we think we aren’t worthy of having. The life we...
3 months ago • 4 min read