Category: Substacks

The one thing about writing for a couple of different formats, what you write in one informs what you’re thinking about as you settle on what to write for the next. So, it was in this case. Before I settled down to write this Substack, I was rolling things around in my brain for a […]

I’m as flabbergasted as you are. It’s suddenly 2026. I’m a Tarot Writer and Reader. It’s the New Year. I’ve done a reading I want to share with you! I’m using my typical five-card Spread. My cards are specifically mine. My reading is similar to one that that many use but includes my own questions […]

What surprises, adventures, challenges, and wishes will the New Year hold for us? With resolutions and intentions, we have the opportunity to view the year as a new beginning, a clean slate on which to write a new story. Rather than our same resolutions, by which I mean new solutions to old problems, what if […]

In 2025, on a trip to Antarctica with my friend Faye, we polar plunged. I’m calling this Series, “Gladly Beyond” from a line in an e.e. cummings poem “somewhere I have never traveled, gladly beyond.” Gladly Beyond! There is so much to this world. Let’s Leap! On Thursday, December 18, this year, a community of […]

In 2025, on a trip to Antarctica with my friend Faye, we polar plunged. It’s astonishing how similar my avatar (to the right), designed by Nanso Cleaver many years ago, presaged this photo. I’m calling this Series, “Gladly Beyond” from a line in an e.e. cummings poem “somewhere I have never traveled, gladly beyond.” Gladly […]

Dark December’s Peace Welcome to the Time of the DarkWhen we seek to empty our mindsOf Life’s busyness and the dazzle thatLeave little room for introspection.Welcome to this Month of SilenceAnd Expansive Skies filled with Stars.Welcome to cold Winter Silence that youSomehow suspect could be filled withA host of Angels, promising thatWe can be better […]

As a Peacemaker I ask, what might a Peacemaker’s Thanksgiving be like? Ideally it would be filled with Peace, awareness, abundance, gratitude, sharing, and thanksgiving. A Peacemaker’s Thanksgiving begins with acknowledging that Peace is your goal and that this is precisely the holiday to begin incorporating Peace into your everyday actions. Thanksgiving provides an opportunity […]

Today I sat at Panera with a friend who is part of my personal Board of Directors, talking about what have always seemed like competing desires: to do my Peacemaking, Thealogy, and Writing — whether poetry or prose — and to make a generous living so I can do more Peacemaking, Thealogy, and Writing — all […]

The other day in the Emergency Department, there was a horrible trauma. Of course, there was. That’s what we do there. It was a weekend. People had places to go. They were in a hurry. Things went wrong. And it got complicated at the hospital as well.