On Boundaries

It’s just after four am here in Phoenix. I’ve been up for two hours. Unsuccessful were my attempts to sink back into the great away ~ so awake I stay. It’s so quiet before the dawn. My ears hold little ~ the sound of my breath, the hum of the refrigerator, the pool pump. The […]

Please Be Curious

“When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.” The above quote by my man Carl Jung is one I consider often when observing my world, especially when my awareness lands on parts of my experience that leave me feeling like something else or someone else is responsible for whatever […]

Miss Apocalypse Learns to Stay

Linear is not my first language. I cried my way through my writing assignments in ENG 101 and 102. Sweating and shaking and cursing and crying was what happened when I would, after procrastinating until the very last minute, finally sit down to write my assignments, but write them I did. If you’re wondering how […]

Lifeasasana.com

Here’s some of what I’ve been up to! Follow us @ lifeasasana.com Dear Kate, Remember when we first met? On retreat in France with our fabulous writing teacher – in silence and surrounded by things simmering in that silence? You wore cowboy boots and marveled at the rain -because Arizona hardly sees any. I marveled […]

What Is The Shit In The Sky Coming Out Of The Asses Of Airplanes?

I’ve been trying to ignore it, to pretend that it’s okay, that ultimately I’m not this body, so why fuss about things I can’t control, and no need to create more suffering in the world by not allowing things to be just as they are, and maybe it’s just con-trails, and maybe I’m wrong that […]

The Most Important Thing

“The most important thing is to know~what is the most important thing?” ~ A Very Wise Person This summer I practiced loving-kindness meditation like my life depended on it, and in a way it did. I spent a week exploring the dark rigid places in my heart, the places that had, up until this point […]

Ramblings From the Road

I’m in Bellingham Washington, sitting on our little red sofa in our little pink flamingo splashed travel trailer drinking a glass of Columbia Valley red and writing to you. I just got back from walking the dogs. It’s ten after nine, and the sun is just about, but not quite, settled. The days here are […]

Blog -Hop!

Blog-Hop! My friend Shannon asked me to say a little something about my writing for a blog-hop, a sort of virtual “tag-you’re-it!” for those of us who write in these spaces… 1) What am I working on/writing? I just finished Week 12 in The Artist’s Way, the classic self-help course for creative recovery. I’ve […]

Now, Where Was I?

Holy crap! I haven’t said a damn thing in over four months! At least not a peep outta me in this white box. I took some time this morning to reflect on my lack of blog inspiration. Why haven’t I had the energy or focus to untangle my hefty pile of thought knots? I now […]

The Fortune Teller’s Daughter

Saturday my friend Candy and I went to see a psychic. After three hours spent sipping champagne, nibbling on salty organic chocolate, and refusing to play follow-the-leader in a painting class, we had two free hours to play before our holiday work party. Instead of doing something obvious like dropping into a bar and continuing […]