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Brave Voice: Join Kelley Hunt and me for our 16th annual retreat into your creative spirit, Sept. 19-24 in the Flint Hills of Kansas. Details here.

Writing Ourselves Home: Come write about body, earth, and time in this vibrant online workshop Oct. 11 - Nov. 21 with lots of supports & inspiration. More here.

How Time Moves: New & Selected Poems: Read my new collection of poems, all about time, home, and love, plus the best of my six previous books. More here!

Writing Ourselves Home: Join my new class to write from the body and earth.

9/11 From the Vantage Point of a Subway Dweller: Everyday Magic, Day 1058

September 11, 2021

Twenty years ago it happened. Ten years ago I wrote this post. So much of it is still true, and there’s so much more to say about the heartbreaking state of polarity, divisiveness, and home-grown hatred in our country. About the pandemic-catalyzed resilience and mutual aid as well as abuse, addiction, anxiety, poverty, and despair.

The Call: Everyday Magic, Day 1057

September 7, 2021

This morning, I gave a short talk at the Lawrence Jewish Community Congregation’s Rosh Hashana service on Shafarot, a calling to live with greater awareness and purpose, to examine what we need to change or release or summon our courage and strength to do, and to be more of a mensch. I ended up, no

In Search of the Big-Ass Trees: Everyday Magic, Day 1046

August 31, 2021

When we went to the Pacific Northwest earlier this month, we had a mission: behold as many big-ass trees as possible. Thanks to our friends Carl and Sara obliging or humoring us, that’s just what happened. Why the big-ass trees? Why not hang out with big marvels of the natural world at this moment in

10 Reasons to Come to Brave Voice: Everyday Magic, Day 1045

August 16, 2021

Kelley Hunt and my 16th annual six-day Brave Voice, Sept. 19-24 in Council Grove, Kansas. We have strong Covid protocols in place to keep everyone protected (all participants must show proof of vaccination, we’ll be spread out and will use masks for big group meetings), and the White Memorial Camp is also very committed to

When Everything's Coming Up Roses: Everyday Magic, Day 1044

August 16, 2021

Kansas roses struggle once summer gets its heat on, but I have found a land where everything is coming up roses: the Pacific Northwest. We were there for Aunt Wilma’s memorial and the family reunion around that gathering, which also included a very special rose garden made from something and by someone Wilma loved very

Let's Talk About Simone Biles: Everyday Magic, Day 1043

July 29, 2021

Let’s talk Simone Biles But first, let’s talk about two gymnasts we don’t know the names of: Elena Mukhina and Julissa Gomez Elena Mukhina, a 20-year-old Soviet gymnast, broke her neck right before the 1980 Olympics when her coach pushed her to practice her balance beam routine although her broken leg hadn’t yet healed. Doing

A Medal for Bravery Finally Delivered After 77 Years: Everyday Magic, Day 1042

July 26, 2021

Saturday I got to watch historic justice: Jarek Piekalkiewicz finally being presented with the Cross of the Brave, known as Krzyz Walecznych in Poland, for his immense courage and heart in fighting for his country in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising. The second-highest honor given by the Polish government finally made its way to Jarek 77

The Inner and Outer Wildness That Brings Us Home: Everyday Magic, Day 1041

July 18, 2021

Here’s a post about my new podcast, “Tell Me Your Truest Story.” Please listen to the podcast here. For me, it’s always been the trees and sky, sun wavering on the surface of water, wind making its invisible presence known through the curving of prairie grass, the darkening night sky and the stars that emerge.

For the Love of the Song & the Singer: Remembering Martin Swinger: Everyday Magic, Day 1040

July 8, 2021

Martin Swinger, a virtuoso singer and songwriter, died suddenly in early July, leaving behind his husband (and partner of 35 years) Brian and many broken hearts in his Asbury Park, N.J. home community, and prior to that, central Maine, where he was a mainstay of the music scene for years. But when I think of

Loving Aunt Rhoda: Everyday Magic, Day 1039

June 25, 2021

All my life, I heard the old folk song “Go Tell Aunt Rhody” as “Go Tell Aunt Rhoda,” and since I had an Aunt Rhoda, this seemed very fortuitous indeed. Sitting on my porch so many years after encountering that old song, I’m trying to absorb the reality that it’s not the old grey goose

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