Lately

Lately, I feel like I’ve been floating down a tepid stream of ambivalence. Dawdling along, picking at the edges of my life, reluctant to fully commit to a day, a task, a project. I want to watch movies and nap, read books, walk the dog and bake. (At this point baking...

Barbies and grassy notions…

When I was little, sometimes I’d stand on the bed in the spare room and peer out the window to inspect the ground below. The side of our house that was never used, the side, that for a time, became a fixation. There wasn’t much to see, a long strip of grass and the...

Thoughts On Not Knowing

I’m in the mall, its the first day of the fair. Everything was set up the night before flowers on the tables, new sign up sheets at the front table. We look good. I’ve had my morning coffee, a little something to eat, and I’m ready to go. Then it happens, just as my...

Why Winter Is A Good Thing

It is so cold where I am right now, that metal is snapping, frostbite can happen in a few minutes, cars won’t start, and as a city, we are praying that there won’t be a power outage due to an energy overload. Winter is demanding we slow it all down. Which is hard when...

Today Is The First Day

Maybe it’s because I’m a person who lives a life deeply embedded in the inner world of the psyche, an extrasensory in perception kind of life (read intuitive). You can say I’m wired for a transmundane life. Transmundane, what a great word! I just...