remembering katrina.
This week marks the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. To mark this solemn date, I am reposting two essays I wrote as I watched from a distance the terrible situation deepen in New Orleans. Consider yourself part of the solution (first posted August 31, 2005) “In helping others, we shall …
thinking thursday.
(I see Johnny Depp got the copy of my new book I sent him. Smile) mind :: my brain and yours Get out the yoga mat. Yoga protects the brain from depression, says a new study: "Researchers have found that three sessions of the exercise a week can help fight …
poetry wednesday : you must make your own map.
A Map to the Next World-Joy Harjo for Desiray Kierra Chee In the last days of the fourth world I wished to make a map for those who would climb through the hole in the sky. My only tools were the desires of humans as they emerged from the killing …
thinking thursday.
mind :: my brain and yours Mr Brilliant is on a roll at his history of ideas blog, with a fantastic series about alphabets: occupational alphabets, touch of evil action alphabets, and something he calls Dada alphabet–monument to quiet bits. Take back your education: "School routines are set up to …
poetry wednesday : i come into the peace of wild things
The Peace of Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the …
poetry wednesday : litany
Need I even say how much I love this? One of my favorite poems from a favorite poet in a most unusual, small package. My thanks to Tana Butler for sharing this with me. Adore, adore, adore, adore some more.
my birthday gift.
Look what arrived on my birthday! My newest book, Four Word Self Help: simple wisdom for complex lives. If you'd like to order a signed (and inscribed) copy, you can do so here. They are in stock and shipping immediately. My signing pen is ready. It is also available at …
On the Day We Were Born: A Play in Four Acts
This post first appeared on Aug 16, 2006, and I'm reprinting it here with an added fourth act. Happy birthday today to my dear Emma (and to myself!) “Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.” – A.W. Pinero ACT I …
fifty-one two-fer.
Today is my 51st birthday. 1) How on earth did that happen?; and 2) I'm grateful that it did. To celebrate, I wanted to offer my new Life is a Verb audio book at a 51% discount for orders received on August 16th. But I couldn't figure out how to …
First sighting of my newest book in the wild!
Thanks to Susie Bertie for sharing this photograph of her copy of my newest book, "Four-Word Self-Help: simple wisdom for complex lives"! I'm still (not so) patiently awaiting my own copy!
