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Brave Voice: Writing & Singing For Your Life: Kelley Hunt and my next (our 17th annual) Brave Voice is May 15-20. 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!

On the Edge of the Holidays: Everyday Magic, Day 1043

November 24, 2021

There’s something both stark and magical about the time right before the holiday season opens wide and emcompasses us in a whole lot of baking, cooking, driving to the airport to pick up or being the ones picked up. Last year, we were encased in our pods, bubbles, and virus-avoidant clans, and although this year

For the Love of Phil on the Day of the Dead: Everyday Magic, Day 1042

November 2, 2021

It’s not lost on me that it’s the Day of the Dead, when we remember and honor our departed beloveds (between Oct. 31-Nov. 2 this year). The veil is thinner during this time between worlds, dimensions, states of being, the spirit world and the world we seemingly inhabit. I’m thinking loud and often about a

Listening to the Land With New Hearing: Everyday Magic, Day 1061

October 26, 2021

Lying in bed this morning between layers of flannel with a purring kitty under the covers with me, I dreamed in and out of the call of a barred owl, seemingly on the other side of the window. Its call sounded different than the night time “who cooks for you?” call, more like a rooster

Make Mine an MRI With a Side of Enya and a Rainbow for Dessert: Everyday Magic, Day 1060

October 7, 2021

Question: How many MRIs does it take a claustrophobe to relax? Answer: When Brandon, the wonderful (re: tolerant) MRI tech asked I told him I’ve lost count. Nothing like tunnelling, sleeping, and freaking out at times through two bouts of cancer, plus having some greater risk of other cancers, to make that too many MRIs,

The Changing of the Light: Everyday Magic, Day 1059

October 4, 2021

Beyond the lower temperatures and chigger count, there’s something else that truly distinguishes this time of year: the changing of the light. The blues get bluer, the pinks and oranges get more silvery, and the hazy summer air dries out to clearer edges and hues all around. Summer in Kansas often feels endless, and not

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

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