Writings

Published on June 19, 2026

I’m Not Retired, I’m Following My Heart

I stared at a blank calendar, and it was a bit overwhelming. What would I DO with all this time? After years of filling it with meetings and classes and appointments, it sat there, empty. […]

Aging
Creativity
retirement
Revelations
couple dancing in France

Published on April 24, 2025

Monday Musings – One True Thing

‘One true thing.’ That’s a prompt a friend of mine shares when we are stuck in our writing. When things feel forced or just a little bit off.  Like a note that is close, but not […]

Musings
Dance
There Be Dragons
Transformation

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Published on April 07, 2025

There Be Dragons

There Be Dragons is the story of a woman who fell off the edge of the world… and how she found her way home.  The title of the book is based on the old belief that the […]

There Be Dragons
Featured
Grief
Musings
Old fashioned map with sailboat and dragons

Published on February 22, 2025

The Girl Who Loved to Dance

Remembering What We’ve Forgotten Text for This Block Once upon a time, there was a little girl who loved to dance. She would twirl and tumble and hop and skip all over the place—never caring […]

Aging
Creativity
Dance

Published on April 17, 2024

Without Him

It is strange the things that trigger the grieving. The other day it was a visit to the accountant to prepare my taxes. Every year for over 26 years we had our ritual at tax […]

Grief
Revelations
woman staring out the window.

Published on October 20, 2023

The Witch in My Hips

When I first started taking Salsa classes, I looked around at all those tone young bodies, feeling a bit intimidated. What am I doing dancing with these young men, young enough to be my son? […]

Dance
Aging
Creativity
Couple dancing salsa

Published on July 03, 2023

Tasting Green

Earlier this year, I decided I wanted to get away for a month, a real sabbatical. To leave Los Angeles with its traffic and noise and a pattern of living so ingrained. At first, there […]

Moments of Mindfulness
Nature
creek with green shrubs

Published on June 28, 2023

Beyond Unraveling

It is beyond unraveling. It is a twirly top after the string has been pulled. The tower card in Tarot where it all comes tumbling down.   It is a profound grief and regret at choices […]

Transformation
Grief
bonfire on a dark night

Published on May 09, 2023

Re-Wilding Body

Slowly, she whispers, feel into me slowly. I am a miracle and yet you are ignorant. I am not your accomplishment or your achievement. Know me, slowly.  The miracle of a million functions a day, […]

Poetry
Aging
neck with collarbone that looks like mountains

Published on February 22, 2023

He’s Interested in Me – Part 2

I’d barely posted part one of this story, when there was already more to tell.  It had been a few days since our last communication and I had that ‘butterflies in my tummy feeling,’ wondering when, if, […]

Relationships
Aging
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