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
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
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
An Experiment: Plant-based Eating as Life-Affirming Activism
So… I’ve been intending to explore plant-based eating for years. But I’ve been scared. Like really scared of the imagined inconvenience, the hunger pains, the fantasies about dishes that I’ve READ MORE
Breaking and Mending on the Path to Wholehearted Love
Oh 2020. I wish I could say you’ve been on fire and that all my #blackgirlmagic is making the unfathomable happen, but January of this new year was pretty sobering, READ MORE
Finding That Summer Time Flow: 12-Steps to Support Recovery from Busyness Addiction
When the Engine Breaks Down The other day I called my sister in tears. The emotions associated with the tears were hard to make sense of right away because absolutely READ MORE
If You Build It, They Will Come
There is so much truth in the feminist position that asserts: when women are well, the whole of society benefits. It was such a treat to teach the women who READ MORE