Writing to Find What Matters Now

I am thrilled to be partnering with Seven Oaks Park to offer a new writing class! In this six week writing workshop, you will learn how to make peace with the Inner Critic and express the thoughts, ideas, stories, dreams, values, and memories that reveal what really matters now, at whatever place you are in…

Fueling the Better Angels of Our Natures: Awe

One of the most interesting and uplifting findings around living a long, joyful, healthy life is the power of awe: putting ourselves in the presence of whatever inspires us with awe on a regular basis and then allowing ourselves to become not only curious, but overwhelmed with wonder, reverence, and admiration. The world is filled…

Shattering and Mending

I am not a knic-knak person, but this bowl…. I loved the autumnal colors, the perfect size, the understated elegance of it so much that I hung it below the mantel in my dining room. There was nothing striking or attention grabbing about the bowl, yet somehow it brought the room to coherence. Our dining…

Hunger for Meaning and Connection in My Overflowing Social Media Pantry

One of the things I have noticed more acutely over the past couple of months, as the world as I have known it has shifted daily, was how much more time I was spending on social media, as well as how…frankly, yucky I was feeling as I did. I had done this social media experiment…

Resting in the Trough

Poetry has a way of saying to our hearts and spirits what is beyond everyday language. In the wake of the 1000 Year Flood here in South Carolina, I offer the poetry of Judy Brown. This particular poem has offered solace, comfort, while strengthening the hearts of many, many souls over the years. May it…

Things I Forgot I Learned

  Every few years, I randomly pull one or two of my old notebooks/journals/lifebooks off the shelf in the back of my closet and revisit my former self, mining the pages for forgotten wisdom and insights. I have been regularly keeping these notebooks, a combination of reflections, mementoes, sketches, wonderings, ideas and drafts,  for more…