Holding the Tension of Our Contradictions
What. A. Time. Against a backdrop of fiery Los Angeles and images that portray a hellfire on Mother Earth, I celebrated the start of my personal new year on January READ MORE
New Year and News of New Healing Horizons
We made it through 2024, a year of dizzying and topsy-turvy social, spiritual, mental and political challenges and let downs for so many of us. This feat is not to READ MORE
2024 Post-election Reflections and Intentions
Thank you to everyone who sent comforting words and for checking in after November 5. Though I’m deeply disappointed (yet not surprised) by the U.S. election results, one important thing READ MORE
Prayers and Wishes + Detoxing Off-grid Until After the Election
These are revelatory and anxiety-producing times. I can remember being in elementary and middle school and periodically taking those “True and False” and “Fact or Opinion” quizzes and wondering why READ MORE
Mid-life Crisis or Mid-life Rebirth?
This middle adulthood moment that I’m having has got me extra full of reflections in 2024, and somehow they do not possess the “crisis” quality that many of our cultural READ MORE
When Talking Is No Longer Enough
Shortly after the pandemic began, I found myself taking longer walks than ever through New York City. On these walks, I craved rich storytelling that could transport me far from READ MORE
Being Seen Without The Masks We’ve Lived In
Today I taught my 3rd graders without a mask for the first time since March 2019. It was a revelation. After a tumultuous two years of changing COVID restrictions, the READ MORE
The Things and People That Got Me Through 2020 and 2021 – part 1
My Health Educator Team Got Me Through What does it really mean to be a team? To wear matching sun hats, jerseys, jeans, and Birkenstocks coincidentally like the two on READ MORE
2021: Holding the Tension of “Both/And” as We Celebrate the New Year
Happy New Year, and welcome to my new blog and website! As much as I hope to kiss 2020 goodbye for good, I will hold fast to the important lessons READ MORE
America Delivered: Now Let’s Ensure That The Infant Will Thrive
For months now, I have had memories surface from a time gone by. A time during which my life in a privileged/lucky bubble of naïveté was made plain, and a READ MORE