Body size and fatness (which is not a dirty word #FatActivist) result from so much more than calories in verses calories out.  Genetics and environment […] Read More

I am so excited to unveil my logo, designed in partnership with Devin McSherry (https://www.devinmcsherry.com/ ), a local graphic designer.  Her intuitive understanding and artistic […] Read More

This month (April 2021) marks my one year anniversary in facilitating a death café.  Death cafes were started in the UK in 2011 by Jon […] Read More

Back in October, I began writing a poem/prayer about covid, to grieve and honor all that we’ve lost and to put feeling into words. But […] Read More

What is prayer to you? Prayer, to me, is non-religious. It is about my connection to my divinity, that is my entirety both deeply internal […] Read More

Many people are concerned about normality. Appearing “normal”, doing things “right” to fit in, belong, be “good”. Most of us do this at one point […] Read More

  I am thinking of the body:  how for centuries the body was intimately tied to colonial and religious concepts around sin, filth, disgust, and […] Read More

…”for the world, as we know it, as we have seen it, yields but one ending: death, disintegration, dismemberment, and the crucifixion of our heart […] Read More

  I’m outside. He’s on his porch and calls out to me: ‘I’m getting a little’ (his hands gesture) ‘procedure’ ……   With that comment, […] Read More

  I write. Or try to anyway. Poems and essays with topics given, chosen, or that have found me. Words have been my art form […] Read More