Years ago, I took a writing class with Martha Beck, “Writing Into The Light.” In the course, we were asked to write a letter to ourself from the perspective of our guardian angel. I loved the assignment. I loved the idea that we have guardian ang...

I caught an Uber at 7:15 in the morning to go to the house of a dear friend where we were meeting to have breakfast before we headed to the National Mall for the Women's March on Washington. The Uber driver had already taken three carloads of women t...

Burning your way to centre is the loneliest fire of all. You’ll know you have arrived when nothing else will burn. Mark Nepo I have been working on letting go for a long time. I choose words of the year like deciduous and surrender. I spend time...

1 : falling off or shed seasonally or at a certain stage of development in the life cycle <deciduous leaves><deciduous scales> 2 : having deciduous parts <maples, birches, and other decid...