I sit by the creek on a sunny spring day. I am tired but something is lifting me. I am being pulled, ushered through space and time as if I must be here. I don’t even know where my lifeforce comes from. I can’t identify it. It doesn’t even feel like me. She comes to […]

I am 34 years old. A new mother in a foreign land. I have approached motherhood as a marathon that might one day end; just keep running, keep performing, keep doing. I am going to win this battle. My competitive, driven nature is what steers my mothering. I do everything and I do it very […]

I want to go fast, but I must go slow. Slow is not something I know how to do. Slow is undervalued, practically non-existent in our society of fast, reckless doing. I watch the buds emerging from the oak trees on this quiet Sunday morning. “Not quite”, She says. “They are not ready. We all […]

Standing on the Threshold: I stand at the impasse of my life. A long dark subway tunnel, abandoned long ago. A pilgrim on an unknown journey, led only by faith, God, Creator, and trust in the worlds upon worlds being endlessly born within me, around me, and beyond me. Much to my dismay, this dreaded […]