Hi friends...here is the link to my new blog spot...same idea, just a bit of a different way to read. It helps me to have it all in one...

I have so many thoughts. My first thought is for all of my white friends: please read the book. Please step back and be willing to...

I love this book. “dear white peacemakers” is an honest, complex, anti-racist, deeply spiritual book. Osheta Moore gives us a beautiful...

Sitting in my hotel room last week in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, I found myself staring out the window at this view. The landscape, the grey,...

I was thinking today...I don't like feeling fragile. It struck me as something I should think about more...and usually my best thinking...

Dear Friends, So much has happened in the last six weeks.... I could actually say--so much has happened since 2020 started.... Right?...

This past July, summer of 2019, we made a big change and moved our lives to northern California. We had been in the LA area since...

I am trying to learn to write. Of course, it is a lot like trying to learn to pray, you must just do it. Write. Pray. Get to it. Start....

For quite a few years I’ve been working on how I process feelings. Honestly, I’m not very good at it. I recognize that I’m very measured...

Dear Libby, Thank you for the letter! :) It has the coolest stamps from Australia! And it’s very wonderful to see your handwriting and...

Sometimes I get to go places and see people, and really, I do love this gift from God. I especially love settling into my window seat...

Libby...thanks for the questions on packing and moving. I am sharing them here so everyone can see! “Unpacking at the new house, are...

There are some (many!) odd things about growing older. This is year 60 for me…which is almost incomprehensible. I mean, I was a...

February is Black History Month. It has been an important month for me the past few years in particular. I’ve enjoyed working with the...

I am feeling a weight of sadness today. I can name the feeling—it’s grief. I’m grieving. I’m grieving Dr. King. I will be honest…it’s...

Advent means the arrival of someone or something…a “notable person, thing, or event.” I was just sitting here looking at our Christmas...

One of my earliest memories is standing in our back yard and looking up at very tall trees. I was by myself. Probably about five or six...

I have resisted this Tuesday...Giving Tuesday. I am cynical about so many things these days...honestly. So I therefore do not want to...

I feel like I disappeared...some of you wouldn't have noticed. I'm not being critical. It's just how life is, right? We come and go a...

I’m not a poet, at least not in a real and trained way. I write poems but that doesn’t mean they are acceptable by real poets, that’s...