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I believe in the transformative power of our stories and in our innate ability to write our way into greater courage, resilience, and creativity. As a writer, educator, creativity consultant and coach, and the former Kansas Poet Laureate, I work with individuals, organizations, businesses, and communities to find and live our truest stories.

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Scans For Life: Everyday Magic, Day 956

February 6, 2020

Years ago when I was in the oncology center waiting room for an appointment following my bout of breast cancer, two women made me cry. One was in her 70s, and the other was her middle-aged daughter, both clinging to each other and having a hard time answering questions because of their sobbing while they

Are We All Just Dust in the Wind?: Everyday Magic, Day 995

January 30, 2020

That’s the question I kept asking myself as I replayed “Dust in the Wind” on my quickly-wearing-out but relatively new copy of Point of Know Return. I was a 17-year-old Jersey girl, commuting two years each way because of a wacky bus schedule from my home in Manalapan to Brookdale Community College, just 10 miles

In the Cave of Winter: Everyday Magic, Day 994

January 23, 2020

Each day I crave a clear view of a clear sky, but fog, snow, sleet, rain, freezing rain, and variety packs of all this percipitation at once fills the well-hidden vistas. Narrower perspectives of what’s out there push me inside and inward to what’s in here. My technicolor dreams, on the other hand, go go

Prayer for the New Year & Bonus Posts: Everyday Magic, Day 993

January 12, 2020

Although 2020 is already underfoot, this is my first blog post of the year, and it’s the first post that will go out to all of you who are subscribers since sometime in October when my website had some issues. Thanks to my soul brother Ravi’s generous time and ample wisdom, the sight is fully

In the Last Hours of the Decade: Everyday Magic, Day 992

December 31, 2019

But that's how time is: a human invention although the seasons born of the turning of the earth, the growth of the trees, and the motion of rocks moving slowly across oceans or fields keep their own kind of count.

Thinking About the Kaddish and the Life Force: Everyday Magic, Day 991

December 28, 2019

Lately I’ve been thinking about the Kaddish, one of the core prayers in Judaism and more or less a call and response to the life force. It seems especially relevant now at the end of the year and the end of the decade when one stretch of time ends and another begins. I’ve been Kaddish-prone

Where Have You Gone?: Remembering Jerry: Everyday Magic, Day 990

December 20, 2019

Lately, I’ve been thinking about my good friend Jerry, who died on December 13 five years ago. While revising my new collection of poetry, How Time Moves, for publication, I’m struck by how many poems I wrote about this dear friend, but then again, every time I drive down Massachusetts Street, past the apartment where

What Can You See?: Everyday Magic, Day 989

November 26, 2019

“Has your sight come back?” people ask me. I try to find a normal way to answer an increasingly complex question because my sight in my right eye is in flux and over the cusp of legally blind. As many readers know, I’ve been on an ocular melanoma road trip through radiation, surgeries, and surprising

New York City Wander Week: Everyday Magic, Day 988

October 20, 2019

I stood in the East Village Friday morning, marveling at a Langston Hughes quote I’ve never seen about falling in love with the energy of New York City each time he returned here. The quote was on an electronic kiosk, and while I got my phone out quickly, it wasn’t quick enough, so I waited

A Bug In My Ear, or Why Is This Night Different From Other Nights?: Everyday Magic, Day 987

October 4, 2019

In the middle of the night, Ken and I learned a whole new wrinkle of what “in sickness and in health” means as well as a new use for leftover Manischewitz Passover wine. As with most things, it began with something very small: a bug, but not just any bug. This one was tiny enough

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