Who Am I?

If you are reading this site, you may wonder who I am.  

For about 40 years, I have written stories, poems, memoirs, features, reviews and other pieces focusing on women’s spirituality for a variety of feminist literary, art, and spirituality publications. My work has appeared in The Goddess Pages, Feminism and Religion,  Return to Mago, SageWoman, Moondance, the We’Moon calendars, Matrifocus, The Beltane Papers, and Women Artists News, and in a number of book anthologies, among others. I have also given poetry readings and workshops.  

I aspirationally see my writing as a bridge between everyday life now and a world where all people believe that they and all other beings are sacred, everyone is respected for who they are, love is unconditional, and creativity is an everyday occurrence. Much of my writing has focused on goddess myths and practices as well as spirituality in women’s everyday lives because I believe that recovering these traditions and uplifting women is essential to building this bridge.  

Over the years I’ve further come to understand that among the primary barriers to this better future world is a lack of true, expansive community, a way of life that respects and values our interdependence and essential connection with other people and all living beings, including the Earth. I see this need for community everyday in the intense sense of isolation experienced by many people I meet and the great anguish this causes, the objectification of our environment and other people, and more. Of course, many cultures, past and present, especially Indigenous cultures, understand and have a long tradition of being in community and those of us not from these cultures have much to learn from them. So you’ll notice this theme in my writing of the past two years.

When not writing, I am usually gardening in my yard, which I am working to make into a little sanctuary for native plants, birds, insects, and animals.