Illustration by: Nancy Richardot Tenney Aka Nanri A few days ago, my friend and extraordinarily talented artist Nanri Tenney gave me a drawing she had made of a teapot that was rich with many layers of meaning. Since I also find the symbolism of teapots to be so extraordinarily abundant that I named this blog… Continue reading The Woman with Bountiful Bowls: A Collaboration of Art and Writing
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Awakening to the Mystery of Absolute Beginnings
I’m thrilled to have a guest post on the blog Feminism and Religion. It is titled Awakening to the Mystery of Absolute Beginnings and you can read it by clicking here.
Remember Who You Really Are
I am thrilled and grateful to have a short story in the new issue The Goddess Pages. It’s been quite a few years since I’ve dipped my toe into fiction-writing, and I’m thrilled to have my first piece of fiction to be published after so long appear there. It is a short story – a… Continue reading Remember Who You Really Are
Emptying the Nest and Loving the Universe
This is the time of the year when the nest of many mothers empties as children who are no longer children head off to college. I suppose that the experience is different for everyone, but I am feeling at once a sense of loss of my old life and sadness from missing someone I deeply… Continue reading Emptying the Nest and Loving the Universe
Holly Lavina’s Video of Hands Baking Bread
Many years ago I published a poem titled “Hands Breaking Bread.” Imagine my surprise when I found that Holly Lavina had made a video of it that was on youtube! I love the video – her reading as well as the graphics bring out elements of the poem even I hadn’t experienced before. Her video… Continue reading Holly Lavina’s Video of Hands Baking Bread
Celebrating Our Birthdays and Changing the World
In order to make articles and columns available to readers here, I am reprinting them as posts. This first appeared in Moondance, December, 2008. I have now lived fifty years on the one planet in the universe that we know has life on it. In that time, the sun has dawned and set 18,262 times;… Continue reading Celebrating Our Birthdays and Changing the World
Celebrate Your Muses: Your Gateways to Inner Worlds
I have stared out my kitchen window several times a day for over 20 years and only yesterday did I notice that I have a woman emerging from the closest tree. From several different angles, a female figure is clearly stepping out of the tree’s gnarled bark. Now, do I believe that there is a… Continue reading Celebrate Your Muses: Your Gateways to Inner Worlds
Happy Birthday, With Love, Sedna
This week I am 51 years old. Last year on my birthday I began what I imagined would be a yearlong adventure gathering up those elements of my younger self that I had left behind but which I wanted back in my life. Much of my meandering took place in New York City, where I… Continue reading Happy Birthday, With Love, Sedna
The Temple of the Subway Goddess: A Beltane Gift for You
My novel, The Temple of the Subway Goddess, was to be published next year. The novel is about the quest to find our way to the essence that connects us to our deepest selves and others in our families, communities, and throughout time and space. This journey is explored through the coming together of a modern urban woman and… Continue reading The Temple of the Subway Goddess: A Beltane Gift for You
Bloggers of the World Award
I would like to express my deep gratitude to Goldenferi of Musings of the Night for this Bloggers of the World award. It is beautiful and I love it and appreciate it! I would like to pass it along to Aerolin of Becoming and MotherWintermoon of Romancing the Crone, both insightful writers of beauty, truth, and… Continue reading Bloggers of the World Award
Goddess in a Teapot 