An Intuitive New Year
Inspiration to think differently as you begin the new year. Dear Reader, Mesopotamian civilizations began their new year in March to...
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- Sep 3, 2022
I Wish You Could: Plumeria (Frangipani)
I wish you could see the Plumeria flowers here. They're also called Frangipani, which I like more, maybe because it seems the least...
- Jun 14, 2020
The Courage to Combine
Waiting for my mug of lemon ginger tea to cool, I crawl into bed with 3 different books — Donna Tart’s The Goldfinch, Rebecca Solnit’s...
- Apr 12, 2020
Wanderlust 7-Layer Bars
Easter is a day of emergence and resurrection. While quarantine is keeping us from physically emerging, I think we can find both of...
- Mar 29, 2020
Red Balloon
Why I write Why you tie a balloon to a string — To stay. To be. To hold onto something: A string of words, taut with grammar’s gravity;...
- Mar 29, 2020
Reflections on Shelter-in-Place
CoronaVirus is a disaster unfolding fast: on our screens if we’re lucky, before our eyes if we wait long enough, and eventually in our...
- Sep 22, 2019
Layers: A Recipe for Tiramisu Cheesecake and What Else Can Be Made of Liquor, Language and Love.
“Is there too much Kahlua?” It struck her as a strange question. She, for one, didn’t know a way to remove an ingredient from peaks of...
- Aug 4, 2019
Silence While Walking
Writing has felt like searching more than saying lately; morning pages, like probing for a light-switch, instead of illuminating with the...
- Jul 6, 2019
Let Tangents be Told: the strange and vital rising of things too small to write about.
When I was young, I’d take a small white ceramic bowl from the cupboard, intended for our pet rats, and start pulling out what...
- Jun 12, 2019
A Reckoning with Autobiography: Reclaiming the “I” in our Writing.
The corner of Michelle Obama’s Becoming pokes out of my charcoal suede book-bag, collapsed on the wooden bench of a downtown cafe. It’s...
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