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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.

Let's Talk About Simone Biles: Everyday Magic, Day 1006

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 1005

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 1005

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 1004

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

Loving Aunt Wilma: Everyday Magic, Day 1038

May 30, 2021

Sunday evening, we sat on our back deck around an outdoor table and a wedding gift from Aunt Wilma and Uncle Ron 36-plus years ago, a wonky folding table. It was the first in-person gathering in 15 months of KAW Council, our bioregional community, and after a humid, muddy walk together in the wetlands, it

Meanwhile, the Birds: Everyday Magic, Day 1038

May 21, 2021

We are living in a world of rain lately, and according to the weather forecast, this is life as we know it into the foreseeable process. It started a week or maybe months ago, yet it’s also not monolithic. Spots of blue sky, small and angular at times, open up in between the humidity and

Hugging People As If It's Perfectly Normal: Everyday Magic, Day 1037

May 4, 2021

When I walked into the Merc Co-op today, I spied Ardys. After talking a little through our masks, she leaned in to bump elbows. “You vaccinated?” I asked. She was, so we flung our arms around each other and held each other tightly, laughing hard and not letting go. It was the dazzlement of my

Rematerializing After Being Beamed Up: Everyday Magic, Day 1036

April 23, 2021

In the Star Trek shows and films, someone can yell out, with grave urgency or casual cheer, “Scotty, beam me up” then off they go. But when they land back in the ship after escaping the clutches of attacking lizard-headed creatures or the like, they often have a moment of looking just a little shaken

A Guide to Your Vaccine Sorting Hat Horoscope: Everyday Magic, Day 1035

April 8, 2021

As more of us absorb the wizardry of the vaccine, where we end up might well be up to the whims of an enchanted sorting hat, just like in the Harry Potter books. Although it’s not a choice between Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin at Hogwart’s School, it’s not like we enter into the great

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