Modern-day safe houses comprise a worldwide wisdom body, though each part has no full knowledge of the whole...

Rodeo Creek Gulch January 12, 2019 5 pm Dear Friends, I’ve just been out on a walk, following my usual route in my ordinary neighborhood, a place of grit...

The poet Muriel Rukeyser wrote in 1968, “What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?  The world would split open.” For four hours on Septem...

Deena Metzger is a novelist, poet and essayist, and my long-time friend and teacher.  Her new novel, A Rain of Night Birds, is an exploration of the fate of...

SOMETHING SLIPPED AWAY FROM me on August 21, 2017 at 10:19 am. It left when I saw the Sun turn black with a pulsing silver ring around it in the dark, star...

A Conversation with Astrologer Sue Heinz This is an edited transcript from Sue Heinz’ monthly astrology talk in Santa Cruz in July 2017, with questions and ...

Blessings on the Winter Solstice. If one is interested in the ancient divine feminine, then one is interested in stone. Stone was the material of our earlies...

These writing mornings, which mirror my writing mornings at home, off to myself, day after day, have been wonderful. I didn't expect them. Last year as we ...

This morning I found Jean on a bench engrossed with pencil watercolors, finishing a detailed close-up of a bright red fireweed leaf.  After a while I joine...

Last night, the phone rang in our room at 1:10 am.  It was the hotel calling to say the Northern Lights were visible.  We fumbled around, coming from deep ...

My first night in Denali, and I had a strange dream. It was as if the mountain was speaking, carrying me into my own depths. Strange attempts to call home,...

In 2009, I embarked on a joyous nationwide tour with dozens of contributors to Sisters Singing. Read my blog from our journey HERE.

for Daniel Michael Flynn (1960-2004) In the pale light I brought him a mound of earth, dank and dark, and he, tall, taller than when I knew him, stood before...