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…
April 30, 2019
Make Gardening Heal Again
“I won't plant vegetables this year,” I told my two sons this winter. I said…