I’m thrilled that you’re here – on this page. It holds much of my latest writing and nearly all of my heart.
As amazing as writing is – being able to express one’s thoughts in words, concepts, and ideas – conversation is even better; hearing your heart, the best. Don’t hesitate to reach out in response.
If you’d like to narrow things down, click on any of the categories below to see a selection of posts that speak to that particular topic.
Smart. Responsible. Steadfast. (Or not…)
Smart.Responsible.Steadfast. These three are jailer’s cell.A clanking of keys;lockstep required. They demand,silence,...
Crossing the Divide between Silence and Speaking
Jan Richardson, one of my all time favorite writers and poets, has a poem called Having Taken the Fruit. Here are the...
Write Toward Vulnerability
If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you...
Belief: Then & Now
There was a time in which any question about what I believed merited a simple, obvious, and expected answer. After...
Sit still. Be quiet. Feel.
Now that both of my girls live miles, states, and flights away from me, I find myself transitioning into what it means...
6 Ways to Access Your Inner Wisdom
It’s taken me a lifetime to learn that I can trust myself and my own knowing instead of needing to rely on external...
Choosing others’ comfort OR choosing self
I have a library of personal stories in which I let others' needs demands overrule my own. I'm not proud of them,...
Changing Everything
If you want to learn about a culture, listen to the stories. If you want to change a culture, change the stories. This...
Steps that count vs. counting steps
I have an Apple Watch that I rarely wear. It enables me to count my steps which, on good days, encourages me, but on...
Amelia Earhart. Agency. Taking action.
Amelia Mary Earhart was born July 24, 1897. In her short life, she was the first female aviator to fly solo across the...
Wisdom does as Wisdom says
Women hold all the wisdom they could ever need, that the planet could ever need, that the world so desperately needs....
If your stories could talk…
A number of years ago I learned about intertextuality. It is how one text speaks to or shapes another; how seemingly...
Hearing Voices
I am neck-deep in manuscript-writing these days. This book, my book, this thing I've been nurturing and holding and...
A DSM-V Code
Did you know that there is a DSM-V code for religious or spiritual problems? Yep: V-Code 62.89. Apparently it is...
A late-night text
I’ve been thinking about the wisdom that has shaped much of my life. I’m grateful for some of it, to be sure. There’s...
Non-existent, but no less real (February 29)
My father died a year ago today. No, that’s not quite right. He died on February 29, 2020. That day doesn’t exist this...
Refrigerator-Magnet Wisdom
Last month I was in a bookstore in Lexington, KY with both of my daughters. We wandered in three different directions,...
What’s left on the cutting room floor?
Each morning, lately, I have been reading from a book with 365 reflections. Some I resonate with; others, not so much....
Choose life – and life – and life
There is an ancient story told of a woman who did not waver when the situation demanded swift (and brilliant) action....
The how-to’s of being “big”
In my last post I named the ways in which we have transmuted being small into our very DNA. This is not the kind of...
Unraveling “small” on behalf of “big”
We must learn to be big in a way we’ve never been big - we must claim our right to take up space, to say our words, to...
Go Deeper Still
Go deeper still... You already know this: there is profound wisdom, strength, beauty, and grace that lies in wait –...
The stories we tell ourselves
I've been thinking about the stories I tell - those of ancient, sacred women who have been absented from our...
My grown-up Christmas list:
One of my favorite Christmas carols by Amy Grant, offers these lyrics: “No more lives torn apart, That wars would...
If we could have coffee together…
If you and I were sitting across from each other, sipping coffee, it would be inevitable that eventually I would tell...
Today is my birthday!
I am 60 years old today. How is that even possible? The days leading up to this one have been filled with reflection,...
Remember who you are
I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old; but now I am a woman again – as I always am when I write. I love this...
She was a voice
I ordered and read The Book of Longings last week. Written by Sue Monk Kidd, author of The Secret Life of Bees and...
How the old stories make the new ones stronger
I listened to Brene Brown’s latest podcast - a conversation with Elizabeth Lesser, co-founder of the Omega Institute...
The power of women’s stories…of YOUR story
There’s an old, old story told that begins with a narcissistic, paranoid, and power-hungry man (which sounds vaguely...
Being Militant. Choosing Hope. Pursuing Desire.
(A Sunday Sermon, of sorts - even though it's not a Sunday...) To refuse to participate in the shaping of our future...
The shadows are not our home
We wake up each morning and watch the world around us burn. We see corruption, scandal, and the decimation of...
A shocking event (with some context)
A Sunday sermon, of sorts, that I hadn’t planned to write... You know those movies that start with a shocking event?...
A crossroad, a cliff’s edge, & decisions
Over a lifetime, we find ourselves at crossroads: a relationship, a marriage, a divorce, a career decision, a location...
Take your seat at the head of the table
All of us know times, even seasons, in which we struggle and strain to feel like we’re on solid ground...in our minds,...
What I need you to remember:
We are desperate to see ourselves in powerful and empowering ways. It’s no wonder: we have too-often and for too long...
Do the Next Thing
I don’t know about you, but when I read or hear the stories of amazing women (which is ALL the time), I have the...
I’m right about this…
Chances are pretty high that if your desire is strong enough, acute enough, and impossible to dissuade, others will...
No Fairy Godmother
There’s a story I love to tell of a mostly unknown woman who singlehandedly won a huge battle for an entire tribe of...
There is nothing you need to figure out
I see the tears behind your eyes. I know about that lump in your throat. I hear the thoughts that swirl in your mind –...
Before Mother’s Day
With Mother’s Day less than a week away, it feels appropriate to name and honor our larger, longer mother-line: the...
Fanning Desire’s Flame
Desire is a tricky thing. To desire feels dangerous because we might not get what we want. To desire is risky because,...
When Things Don’t Go as Planned
I’ve been thinking a lot, even more than I normally do, about my daughters. About the trials and tribulations that, by...
Before Valentine’s Day
I have an ambivalent relationship with Valentine’s Day. When young(er), I wished and prayed that I would have a...
Magical Thinking
Many of us wait around or secretly hope that something magical will happen. If I’m lucky enough, patient enough, good...
As 2018 begins…
Rebecca Solnit has written a book called, The Mother of All Questions: Further Reports from the Feminist Revolutions –...
These Stories Still Speak
I’ve been awake since 4:30 this morning. Uncharacteristically, instead of lying in bed and trying to tame my...
12 Years of Blogging
I find it almost impossible to believe that 12 years have passed since I meekly created a WordPress site and began...
The deep and ever-present wisdom…
HEARING VOICES We all have at least one – often a legion of them. They speak when we least want them to. They show up...
Champagne on a Tuesday
My oldest daughter, Emma Joy, turns 21 today. Yes, Halloween. I can still picture her, just placed in my arms, with...
Women Joining & Healing
I feel like I am drowning in a sea of opinions, disasters, tragedies, trauma, harm, violence, and misunderstanding –...
Happy 19th Birthday, Abby!
Your birthday. Nineteen. Somehow, it feels different this year. As I was thinking about what to write today, I went...
My Empty Nest
I can hardly believe the title of this post, the truth and heft of just three small words, the fact that they actually...
My Inner Critic = The Patriarchy
I was recently organizing files on my computer (something I do when I intend to write, but instead find busy work…)...
Charlottesville
I feel a heavy, collective shame. I feel stuck, trapped even, between not knowing what to say or what to do and...
About Being Ubiquitous
This post could be entitled About Being God Without Realizing Such. I came across this word while reading a novel a...
My Heart (Monitor)
I am hooked up to a heart monitor right now. It’s mobile – just four electrodes connected to various and particular...
God on a Woman’s Terms
For most of us, the word "sacred" conjures some thought of God. Perhaps you associate this with a positive set of...
The Scaffolding Around My Heart
Today is Abby’s last day of high school. I just finished packing her last school lunch – ever; my last school lunch –...
Holes. Gaps. Cracks. Miracles. Light.
When you write you have to attempt something greater than you can possibly hope to accomplish. That is the only way...
Why do you write?
"Why do you write?" was a question recently asked of me. Here’s my answer: I write because it is the space in which I...
Sacred Conversation with Your Heart – #6
Today concludes this 6-part series on (Sacred) Conversation with your Heart. I am hopeful, though, that it is just the...
Sacred Conversation with Your Heart – #5
We’re moving toward the end of this 6-part series. I am hopeful it has done your heart good – especially given that...
Sacred Conversation with Your Heart – #4
PART FOUR – SPEAKING DEEPER TRUTHS Conversation, of course, is more than just listening. At its best, it is filled...
Sacred Conversation with Your Heart – #3
PART THREE – HEARING DEEPER TRUTHS My heart does not steer me wrong. It may speak to me of things I’m not yet ready...
Sacred Conversation with Your Heart – #2
Today features Part 2 in a 6-part series that’s all about Sacred Conversation – not with me, but with your heart. You...
Sacred Conversation with Your Heart – #1
Today starts a 6-part series that’s all about Sacred Conversation – not with me, but with your heart. Each post will...
Easter 2017
I will not be attending Easter services today. I will not witness the rows of shiny, white patent-leather shoes,...
My Left-Hand Side
I did a quick mapping of my body the other day. Here’s what I discovered – from top tobottom: Many mornings, I wake up...
Somewhere between Kali and Jesus
I am Kali Ma.I stick my tongue out of my once silent lips.These eyes, no longer mild,Are furious daggers of fire.~ a...
Nevertheless, we persist!
On Tuesday, February 7, 2017, Senator Elizabeth Warren began to read a letter Coretta Scott King wrote in 1986 that...
For now. Not forever.
I have felt more like a passive observer, than riled-up revolutionary since Donald Trump became president. Yes, I...
Goodbye, Twitter
I cancelled and closed my Twitter account last week. I’m almost hesitant to mention it; it was so undramatic But...
January 1, 2017
What dreams lie dormant hidden in the womb of your soul, quietly waiting, incubating seeking opportunity to come...
Choosing the Storm
I’ve been thinking a lot about how strong my proclivity is for calm; for a life that is tame, sedate, and...
Tiptoeing
I can’t tell you how tired I am of tiptoeing; of having to navigate through so many potential landmines that I feel...
Choose Life
I spent a couple of lovely hours with a young woman this morning who asked me what I thought about spiritual...
Whose Story Am I In?
I just finished writing this entire post, went to read through it from the beginning before hitting “publish,” and...
I Am This Woman
I wrote what follows for the women’s event, Conversations (mentioned in my last post). As the days have progressed...
Women Together: the best kind of danger
I just returned from three glorious days on the waterfront in Gig Harbor, WA. If that wasn’t good enough, I was in the...
Power & Privilege (and me)
These words: power and privilege, have been part of numerous conversations lately. Some of those conversations have...
Will I tell you what I want?
A friend loaned me a book last week that I can’t put down. It’s called Women and Desire: Beyond Wanting to beWanted by...
Prophet as Female
While I was still a student at The Seattle School, I remember hearing one of my professors lecture on the categories...
Piano Recitals
Yesterday my 9-year-old daughter, Emma, gave her first piano recital. She was joined by 5 other young pianists –...
My Out Loud Voice
I was talking with a friend this morning about how common it is for women to lose their voices – not...