Julia’s Blog – Birthing Our Families & Our Fiercely Fertile Selves

“The Day Oprah didn’t save my life,” would’ve also worked as a title of this post. Both of those titles would’ve been telling the truth. Here is why. It was almost as I had dreamt it. Almost. In the dream, or rather a nightmare, the Oprah Crew showed up unannounced at the back door of […]

Let her rrrrroar, let her blow off some steam, vent, throw a punch or juice a river of green lemonade, but whatever you do, don’t turn your back on her. The part of you that clamors for more life. I don’t mean a child. Or more children. I mean more life. The first D, the one that […]

The Visionary Mama in us, is often, very often—I’d even say, most often— born through reaching the tipping point of frustration, grief, anger. Those less welcome responses in us, will either nail down the doors of the orphanage, or throw them wide open. The Orphan gets overwhelmed by inconvenient emotional reactions to whatever shows up in our […]

I’m in trouble. The editors of The Hudson Valley Magazine, a wonderful, important publication in the New York Metropolitan area, chose to include me in their annual People to Watch in 2016 profiles. So why would that signal trouble? Because gifts call for more courage. They are en-courage-ments to show up more fully for the […]