On Sexuality

ON SEXUALITY For me, owning and living my sexuality has been a form of healing work. It takes incredible courage for women to bring our sexuality with us everywhere we go –to work, shopping, alone behind closed doors (or not so alone…). And it is not as though we have...

On Courage

ON COURAGE It is when things are at their darkest and when we are feeling the deepest sense of isolation that we most need our courage. Regardless of where I go, regardless of the peaks I summit or the joy that I embrace, I inevitably end up staring into the broken...

On Heartbreak

ON BROKEN HEARTEDNESS I could not write about heartbreak. So, I left home and traveled wondering: How do you describe the process that makes emptiness evident? That stretches out our longing over the racks of days and years? That makes our futility and powerlessness...

On Happiness

ON BEING A LOVER When I think back on myself as a child, I am struck by the gentleness, openheartedness and connectedness that I possessed. I remember so many moments of feeling profound and exquisite love. As I watch the years turn in my mind, I start notice that the...

The Love that Got Me Here

THE LOVE THAT GOT ME HERE As a child, I talked to God lying on my back reading symbols in the sky but I was unable to sense much beyond human judgement in the religious institutions I would occasionally attend. As a teenager and into my early 20’s, I turned toward...