Capturing stories There are wonderful companies out there who help you record a short interview with a grandparent or elder member of your family. Have one made, you will be glad you did. There are ways to do this yourself. In this age of selfies, and self-produced video, though, there are wonderful, fairly easy, and […]
Behind the Scenes in Life and Dreams
I have been very busy working on my Women’s Legacy Project launch. While this is essential work to continue upon the writing path I have been following and then clearing and creating over the last couple of years, I have had to neglect some things to focus on others. Life can be cruel. It gives us energy […]
Summer Above, Winter Below, and Confusion All Around
“It is the June Solstice wherever you go today,” I wrote last week. In the Northern Hemisphere we observe the Summer Solstice and in the Southern Hemisphere the Winter Solstice is observed. Like everything humans do, there is some disagreement about what this means, except that old Sol aligns with the Tropic of Cancer. I […]
Clouds of Late Fifties Funk
I have been in a funk and giving myself a pity party for the last several weeks. First I realized my magical year was ending as my 58th birthday rolled around a couple weeks ago. Born in 1957 my 57th year was to be magical or golden according to contemporary mythology I chose to embrace. […]
Self-Indulgent Micro-Focus on Piffle Must Stop
There is a problem in the world. One problem. We are killing ourselves. We have an inter-connected world in which tiny, myopic, and dysfunctional communities are chafing from rubbing up against communities with opposing and equally dysfunctional bases. Once the world was a big enough place that opposing ideologies simply widened the geographic distance between themselves and […]