I found when I had told this story here that I had never told it before — not like this.  We find the opening when what needs to be...

“And you would be…?” Good morning, dearests. Would you like to hear the eulogy at your own funeral? I think I just did. I had a rare...

With our lives. Aimlessness and loss compound each other. Perhaps you’re lying in bed at night worrying about tomorrow or next...

Dear ones, this morning I, too, am torn, deeply sad and sorry and worried, reaching out to friends to know they’re safe, aware...

Spoken to the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Bozeman for the Blessing of the Animals… I was invited to share today in part because...

The gift of inland islands… Three months ago post-traumatic stress came to walk beside me again, after many years gone. Random panic...

Sometimes I think I have come into this life as one of the pain-bearers — not one who takes all pain onto herself, nor one who takes it...

A story and an invitation and a challenge.  The story is here in this short Pecha Kucha video. This was about people playing with...

We are all together on this ship and some of us will die sooner.  Some young.  I will grieve again, and comfort.  It may be me.  Those of...

But this is where I want to be clear.  I am not asking that my engagement with my own particular demons be clean.  That I stay fully...

Sometimes I feel I must be an alien, because I really, really love to talk about death, and about burnout. But this is really why. When I...

“I just wanted myself back, and then to create something more. After what I’ve been through, I am not going to settle for an average...