A Fairy Tale…
I was recently invited to try writing a fairy tale. Here were the instructions: Start with “once upon a time,” imagine yourself as the main character, and just let it flow out. Here is what I came up with…
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Weight
Weight. On my soul, my eyes, on my body. So much weight. It feels hard to move. Stuck in the muck of life. Rooted in the ‘not enough part’. Not enough, so must consume and consume and consume, everything. Too much, too many, too, too, too. Heavy. Is it loving to write these words? To…
Yes, and…
I am here because… I want to love me. I want to love life… even the parts I don’t want. I want to accept that I will never be done trying to love all the parts. This is not a fight to the death… and it also is. And I see I am not alone,…
New scientific study on spanking… are we asking the right questions?
A few years ago I would have immediately lept onto my high horse after reading this article about the new ground-breaking scientific study on spanking, which states that five decades of research on children that were spanked shows spanking in fact doesn’t improve behavior or have positive long-term impact on a child’s life. A…
My Heart is a Voyager
My heart is a voyager Feeling the unknown like a tide Feeling the pulse and pull She sails the high seas Through ups and downs Calm and storm She calls them waves and rides them as they appear My dear heart She moves toward the dark The depth The beasts At the same time she…
We have choices!
I had dinner with a friend the other night in this delectable Argentinian restaurant in downtown Denver and she tells me she is writing a book about YOU. She explains that it must be about YOU, because that word needs to be redefined since most people don’t understand it. As I sit listening to her…
