• Thoughts

    What’s In Your Head?

    I am here in Maine, where I spent the first eighteen years of my life. This second stint has already lasted 19 years, and I still don’t have a place on the water. How many times did I ask my…

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    Boundaries and A Bill of Rights

    Boundaries and Relationships by Charles L. Whitfield, M.D., scared me. It’s not an imposing book (there are only about 250 pages); there are no freaky graphics, and the writing style is rather straightforward. I’ve owned a copy or two since February,…

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    Worth the Work

    This morning, I wrote in my journal about how I still get surprised when I cross a new threshold of healing: There’s been so much already—I’m not done yet!?!?! But it’s true, and I imagine that it will long be…

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    An Unleashed Life

    My husband refers to life prior to the Plandemic of 2020 as “The Before Times.” I think of my own life as being split in a similar way, with the point of divergence being February 2022, when I began reading…

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    What We Carry

    Kyle Reese dropping naked into a rubbish-strewn L.A. alley was an unexpected introduction to one of the biggest movies of 1984. I saw The Terminator about a year later, at a friend’s house, after it came out on VHS tape,…

  • Poetry

    Alphabetical by Author

    Some days I findone of my mistakesthere on a shelf,standing tall. A title and a nameremind me ofwhere I’ve beenand longed to go;what I may have needed,thought I wanted;who I tried to be.

  • Thoughts

    Love is Not the Answer

    Assuaging fear is, because we are all filled with it, even when—especially when—we tell ourselves that we’re afraid of nothing. In fact, the farther back in the closet we shove the fear, the more powerful it becomes, because it grows…

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    The Essence is the Goal

    You tell your story over and over until you find the words and the listener that make everything click. Inspiration works that way, too. Over the years, artist Valda Bailey has provided lots of it, so it should be no…