September 17, 2019
Facing Our Deepest Fear
“I’m afraid to die,” Vic said. His raspy voice was soaked with despair. I rubbed…
September 3, 2019
The Woodstock Generation: Vietnam, Jail, or Canada
“I don’t want to move to Canada,” I said to my boyfriend Vic in 1967.…
August 20, 2019
Elaine Mansfield’s Evil Plan to Control My Life & Inner Monologue by Melody Smith
I’m excited about the spark in this week’s writing class! A food spark gives me…
August 6, 2019
Monarch Medicine: A Meditation on Transformation
With morning dew on the grass and the sun rising over the hill, I wander…
July 9, 2019
Let Everything Happen to You
Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final…
June 25, 2019
A Day without a To-Do List
I wake up gently, yawn, and bury my head in warm blankets. “You should get…
June 11, 2019
Witnessing: Life, Death, and the Wisdom of the Crone
I love the promise of eggs laid by songbirds in nesting boxes on my land.…
May 28, 2019
Hearing Our Determined Hearts
“I need help,” I said. I was a mother pleading for her child. The deaf…
May 14, 2019
The Color of Forgiveness
“Will you meditate with me?” he asks. I'd said yes for many years. Chemotherapy was…