I started a term of service as an AmeriCorps Member in September of 1994, during the first year of AmeriCorps. I served my community in support of a state-wide scholarship initiative in Indiana. President Bill Clinton swore us in via satellite from t...

Good people eat. So do bad people, skinny people, fat people, tall and short ones. Heaven help us we will never master photosynthesis. Planning complex, beautiful meals and investing one's heart in their preparation is the opposite of self-indulgence...

Be still, my soul, and steadfast.Earth and heaven both are still watchingthough time is draining from the clockand your walk, that was confident and quick,has become slow.So, be slow if you must, but letthe heart still play its true part.Love still a...

The world begins at a kitchen table. No matter what, we must eat to live. Joy Harjo I paid attention to a social media post from a friend this week. She referenced the Joy Harjo poem, Perhaps the World Ends Here. Harjo places the kitchen table at ...