Breaking Point: #5
I am hosting an end-of-winter series featuring stories from the trenches of pain. My hope is that in sharing these breaking points, we will feel less alone. Thank you all for your bravery. You are...
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I am hosting an end-of-winter series featuring stories from the trenches of pain. My hope is that in sharing these breaking points, we will feel less alone. Thank you all for your bravery. You are...
View ArticleBreaking Point: #11
We are rounding the bend toward Spring. Each year at this time, I remember what gratitude is…in tiny things like being able to see the driveway again. The call of the red-winged blackbird in the...
View ArticleBreaking Point: #13
After reading this hopeful post, the words of the poet Wallace Stevens came to me: Only this evening I saw it again, At the beginning of winter, and I walked and talked Again, and lived and was again,...
View ArticleBreaking Point: #14
Today’s Breaking Point story is one of scope, perspective, reason, seasoned emotions, personal empowerment, grace. I hope it helps people see that what hurts now…can free you. First, here is a lovely...
View ArticleBreaking Point: #16
Today’s Breaking Point stories are about endings. They’re about having to let go of “the way things were.” If there’s one thing we can count on…it’s change. Sometimes that’s good news. Sometimes...
View ArticleAre You Wanting to Start a Business? Here’s some inspiration…
When people advertise on my blog, I like to champion them, especially when they have created something powerful from pain. I’d like to introduce you to Renee at Monogram Mama who will be advertising...
View ArticleLong Ago: Community Entry #23
As you may know, I am spending a few months in the dormancy of winter, working on a book. And, like last year at this time, I am offering my blog to you. Last year we looked into our Breaking Points …...
View ArticleThank God!
Retreat in Big Sky Beauty! Haven Writing Retreats: June 19th-23rd (Full) August 7th-11th (Now Booking) September 4th-8th (Now Booking) September 18th-22nd (Now Booking) I’ve noticed something lately...
View ArticleMy Happily Ever After: what I’ve learned from writing something that a lot of...
You never really know where life will lead you, but if you live with pure intention and feed what you love with all your might, consistently and honestly…you might find yourself in places you’d never...
View ArticleYou Are Arriving
This is for all the brave people who have joined me at Haven Retreats, and for those who have yet to come. The journey is everything. There are a few poems that have kept me together in the last...
View ArticleRe-defining Family at Holiday Time
My friend and fellow seeker/Huffington Post Blogger Marina Illich and I like to untangle the hard stuff. We call it Five Minute Manna. This is what has our hearts and minds activated this holiday...
View ArticleModern Love: The Podcast
After so many people, literally millions, read my Modern Love essay in the New York Times in 2009…and after so many people didn’t receive its message, it is just plain manna for this writer to listen...
View ArticleNew Year’s Hope: Winged Victory
"Don’t live in fear of the rug being ripped out from underneath you. But do know what your passions are and live them with all your might. I’m glad then, that my passions were in a row when the rug got...
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