I’m experiencing a concatenation of ideas about writing, self-understanding and self-actualization. Joan Didion started it. After her...

I’ve never been big on making New Year’s Resolutions. In fact, the idea used to annoy me deeply back when I worked out at a gym and...

To my delight, I fell down a Maxine Hong Kingston rabbit hole and discovered this gem from an interview in The Guardian. Describing a...

Reading Edith Wharton, the biography by Hermione Lee, I’m becoming aware of why I never liked to read Edth Wharton’s novels, which are...

“I am intrigued by writers who garden and by gardeners who write. The pen and the trowel are not interchangeable, but seem often linked.”...

Soul Vows is my favorite of Janet Conner’s books. I have gone through it twice and have twice crafted my own set of vows. I think that’s...

I’ve been thinking about Keri Smith’s Wreck This Journal as a way to pay attention and engage with my imaginarium but it occurred to me...

I loved Dominique Christina’s This is Woman’s Work. It’s not a scholarly work on archetypes, it’s her lived experience of these...

I'm inspired by the boundaries women set to protect their creativity and how often women persevere in being creative even if they only...

I pulled the Empress card in tarot today and thought of the Dylan Thomas line “the force that through the green fuse drives the flower...

I’ve been trying to read Carol Lee Flinders’ book Enduring Grace and am having to confront my repugnance for asceticism. The first female...

Keri Smith has a great exercise in Living Out Loud in which you get a box and start a clipping file of anything that interests you. After...

I think of MFK Fisher as a food writer, but last night as I cozied up to Last House and a piece of pie (MFK Fisher would probably not...

Oscar Wilde wrote "All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling." Harold Bloom paraphrased Wilde's idea as "all bad poetry is sincere."...

"Most of us have a gap in our lives between where we find ourselves and the life we actually want to be living. It's time for you to look...

“... art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees…” Twyla Tharp, The Creative Habit “Everything is raw...

I see her walking on a path through a pathless forest or a maze, a labyrinth. As she walks, she spins and the fine threads fall behind...

I love remnants and snippets, found objects and things that fall by the wayside. And I think it's really fun to put them together and see...

I've been angry at my garden this summer. Hot, humid weather, weeds, perfectionism and overwhelm have led to resentment, resistance and...

A Jill-Badonsky-inspired wobbly mandala in honor of Jill's July 26 birthday. "Trusting the process leads to peace and contentment....