Read Online Recently, in an aerobics class, dancing with forty other people—mostly women—I flashed back to the 1980s and dancing with my friend in nightclubs. I lived in San Diego then, and we’d meet early, dance for a few hours, and leave right as the drinkers arrived. Now I’m twice as old as I was then. And standing there in that class, I thought: my forty-year-old self would be proud of me. Still dancing. Maybe not for as long. Maybe not in nightclubs. But still moving. The thought made me...
19 days ago • 3 min read
Hi Reader ~ Almost thirty years ago, I learned about something called Remote Viewing — the practiced skill of seeing what your eyes can't. I didn't just read about it. I experienced it myself, once or twice, in ways I have never forgotten. Along the way I met Joseph McMoneagle, one of the most documented remote viewers in history. He agreed with a room full of people that I was from Mars. I never asked him what he meant by that. All these years later, I wish I had. I'm telling you this...
20 days ago • 1 min read
Read or Listen Online Not the running commentary on what you should fix, or the worn story of who you’ve always been. I mean actually seeing yourself and the gift you carry that’s so much a part of you that you’ve stopped noticing it’s there. We move through most of our days seeing what we expect, what we fear, what we’ve already decided is true. And the hardest thing of all to see clearly is the person in the mirror. But clear sight is exactly what these times are asking of us—to heal the...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Hi Reader~ It's been years since I went back to school in September. Years since I packed my own children off, too. And still, every summer, right about now, I get that feeling. Fresh notebooks. A clean start. Ready to get back to work. Do you feel it too? Maybe that's why I love our September class so much. And this year, we're working on our intents. Not intentions. Intents. They're different — and that difference changes everything. Here's why I'm writing today: the early bird discount...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Read Online I always wanted to be a dancer. But after a few dance classes as a child—I still remember the little black tuxedo my mom sewed for my tap recital—my parents decided that what I really wanted was piano and art lessons. They were right. I loved those too. But then I watched my future dance teacher perform in The Red Shoes, and I couldn’t stop thinking about dancing. The decision had been made, though, so I tried to live with it. I was already writing little stories for the paper,...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
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...
about 2 months 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...
2 months 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...
2 months 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...
3 months ago • 2 min read