Fun is a Necessity.

Wednesday is the sandwich-center day Smushed between days of doing and the hands that hold them.

When your instincts are informed by your healthy fear, you’ll have hundreds of options – and if you let it, your fear will help you choose.

Here's a story I told recently at "Love, Really." a community storytelling event about the MANY different kinds of love.

A poem for my winter women's Gateless salon.

​ I started dancing the fall before I started college. Every Thursday I would meet a friend of mine at a gas station part-way to Youngstown, Ohio. We would c...

A poem and a tale of guitar repair.

We deserve gentleness when it comes to our writing. Simply because we exist, and choose, gorgeously, courageously, daily, to not be dead.

My dears, I've written to you before about my somewhat aversive relationship with social media. I got on Instagram earlier this spring, and it has been SO. M...

1. They make people happy. This is definitely reason number one. I love the feeling of writing out a card and knowing that this is physical proof for someone...

[To be read in the chilly voice of Winter. Click here if you'd like to listen along.] I noticed her herbal tea bag tag said, “Earth laughs in flowers.” Emers...

I've spent years of my life as a circus elephant. It may be something we have in common. There’s a parable* about a circus elephant that grows up with the ch...

I am delighted by words that make sense, especially when I take their sense-making for granted until a moment of epiphany, when it's like, "Ohhhhhh. That's w...

When I was younger, my Grammie gave me a watercolor painting set as a gift. It was previously used, but seemed very official to my wonderstruck younger self....

In no particular order, here are some poems I very much enjoy and hope you will, too. "So don’t waste my time and your curses on verses about what you are ag...

These videos have each played a role in developing my opinions and beliefs, and stoking my motivation to keep working and learn more. I hope you enjoy them ...

As I was driving home from the library tonight I turned on the radio and got annoyed as—classic Vermont—the radio started cutting in and out. After a few dis...

Getting a $1500 bill when you thought a procedure would be covered is exactly 0% fun. Here are some things I've learned that might help you avoid or navigate...

I was an late bloomer when it came to social media. I didn’t open a Facebook account until I was 18. Getting my parents to approve my first online accounts (...

One of my most memorable moments working with young people was the moment after the moment I spent impersonating a blob fish. For the uninitiated, blob fish...

For an educator and word enthusiast, I am perhaps unusually openminded about grammar. I do care about it, but in the way one cares about walking. It’s very u...