Greetings, I have a love affair with all things cosmological. In fact, just last night I watched (again) another video episode of Cosmos—a thirteen-part TV series broadcast by PBS in 1980, hosted by my hero Carl Sagan. Yum. Much of my poetry plays with concepts involving the heavens and heavenly bodies. What could be a…
Category Archives: Just A Story
A Woman with Heart ~ Sara Healy
It’s my pleasure to dedicate this post to Sara Healy. Sara has enough heart to fill an Olympic-size swimming pool. Well, that, and maybe the entire universe. Twice. My step-daughters gave me the glass-blown heart you see in the image above and I’m quite enamored by it. I love to feel the weight of it…
Goodies
We have a delayed order of business to discuss. As I mentioned I would in my latest post, I did, indeed, choose a winner at random on Sunday to receive a crisp new copy of Rebel Buddha from yours truly. I apologize for my delay in sharing the results. Feel free to send Ms. MS…
An Angel is Born
{Reading time, approx. 6–7 min.} For the holidays this year, I treated myself by hiring the infamous Jay Shryer (a.k.a., The Supreme God of Words) to write a Custom Story for me. A small but related detail: okay, I’ll admit it, I spent at least 75% of my childhood pretending I was a superhero, most…
An Oblique Walk
I’m taking a new twist with my post today—please bear with me. Things have been pretty kooky in my world lately, and I don’t want to get too deep into discussion about life, but Ms. MS and I have been having some serious talks. (I found out she really loves earl gray tea—who could have…
An Update…
I thought I’d drop you all a quick note. Hello! Things have been a been a bit out of sorts in my neck of the woods. I’m getting accustomed to a new MS treatment that I embarked upon early this month and have been under some atypical stress lately. Because of this, I have put…
The Way I See It…
(Reading Time ~ 6 minutes. Photo credit Ola Wiberg ~ Powe via Creative Commons license) “I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson While discussing life with a friend recently, she encouraged me to write this post with the thought that you may be inspired…
Three tips for writing, loving, meeting mermaids, and more
{Reading time: ~6 minutes} Having been named one the top ten personal development blogs by someone I admire, Annabel Candy of Get in the Hot Spot (thanks Annabel!), I suppose it’s time I acknowledge that many of my posts could fall into the personal development space. I blog about writing, creativity, fitness, wellness, storytelling, leadership,…
Shifting Sand
Shifting Sand The roof of the tent drooped to a sag. Relentless rain twisted into my cot. With the passing seconds, the minutes clicked into past tense. It’s time to sit by the sandbags and keep watch. It’s only fair, and my turn. How did I arrive here, in this desert abyss? Please upend the…