In the midst of the hustle, and the worry, and the pain, how often do you pause to breathe and feel moisture on your skin?

Gratitude comes In small doses. Ordinary encounters...

And Why I Wear a Mask Part One: I have a chronic illness. Thankfully, it's under control, or mostly, at any rate. It went undiagnosed for...

"Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it." — Lloyd Alexander As a child, I was a voracious reader. Still...

On Making Connections in a Hurried World This is a meditation on gifts and the web of interaction that keeps us all connected in this...

and so are some of my friends “…when books are run out of school classrooms and even out of school libraries as a result of this idea,...

“It was not then a question of crime, but rather one of color, that settled a man’s conviction on almost any charge.” — W. E. B. Dubois...

on communicating what matters Photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson once wrote: “What the eye does is to find and focus on the particular...

on life in a rolling disaster Writing mentor and friend Kristine Kathryn Rusch wrote a recent Patreon blog about the need for creative...

Art, Generosity, and Life Art is not a competition. Art enriches us all. Life is not a competition, either. I’ve been working my way...

On Commerce, Politics, and Art Part One: Politics (from Greek: Πολιτικά, politiká, ‘affairs of the cities’) is the set of activities that...

Who are you, right now? What is your life like? What do you want, need, and desire? “Don’t compare your insides with someone else’s...

On Impatience, Injury, and The Practice of Presence I used to say that the universe conspired to have me in airports constantly because I...

Or, Why Art Matters Not all pilgrimages involve ordeals. Sometimes, all we have to do is decide something is meaningful enough to trek up...

On Runes, Solidarity, and Not Being Okay “what didn’t you do to bury mebut you forgot that I was a seed” — Dinos Christianopoulos,...

I wanted to end 2020 by talking a bit about space clearing. We’re going to start with this meditation about clearing the space closest to...

“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of...

And then… The slow return to the sense of feet on ground. The slow return to the sound of birdsong, or cars, or laughter. The slow...

These are times of hope. These are times of rage. These are times of possibility. These are times of despair. In The Ones Who Walk Away...

Except…there’s one facet of this tale that my own writing career intersects with. So, I’m going to speak. For context I recommended these...