Joy Amid the Turmoil: A 2020 Recap
The year 2020 may have been the most turbulent year any of us have ever known. Blogging in such a …
Category Archives: Writing
True Ghost Stories: Growing Up in a Haunted House
Have you ever had any ghostly encounters? Each year around this time, I like to reblog a series of tales …
The Personal & Political, Past & Present
Years ago, in what seems like another life time, I wrote a political column called “Taking Care of Labor” in …
“More to Me Than Time Allows to Be”
I wrote this years ago, a kind of declaration for a state of being with which I passionately identified, although …
Grieving for America, and Getting Past It
I found this quote by Mary Oliver in a recent blog post and it struck a chord. Ah, world, what …
Landscapes of the Mind – Six Singular Experiences
It’s all about the mind, of course. All experience filters through it, the outward and inner, nature and the art …
David Whyte, Putting Down the Weight of Aloneness
I’ve long been a fan of David Whyte’s poetry and this one is no exception. It seems it may have …
To Live Content With Small Things
A few pebbles for the pond . . . . To live content with small things; To seek elegance rather …
“Vast Emptiness, Vastly Full”
There are a few refrains that I turn to again and again when I want to get a clearer sense …
Toni Morrison: Diving Into Darkness on Wings of Light
Last in my series “Brushes With Blackness” on how Black lives and Black Culture colored my Whiteness. I’d always wanted …
