Fun is a Necessity.

“The Time Kettle—few have seen it.” It is a tiny speck of a vessel, and yet it carries the flame for the entire universe. It is grand,...

Why does everything happen so much all the time? Do plants have desire? Yes. For sun, for water. For questions.

I’ve spent the last few months, bloody knuckled, in the dirt, excavating ceramic vases that are thousands of years old. Metaphorically.

What would it be like, she wondered, to watch someone else love my friend? No. Not like that. Get your mind out of that gutter. I will...

On toilet paper, and other mass produced art processes.

If our work is about love, a business-like, "How much will you do this for?" becomes a reverent, "What do we each desire right now?"

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...

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,...

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...

[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...

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...

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...

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...

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...