I was ten years old, standing in the middle of the  stage reciting a poem. The entire school of several hundred children was gathered in a huge auditorium. Suddenly I froze, went blank, forgot the next line. And the hall erupted in laughter. After what felt like an eternity, a teacher handed me a book […]

  My Great Grandmother’s Love Letter I never met either of my grandmothers, let alone my great-great-grandmothers. But over the last decade or so, I have received much pleasure  from reading the astonishing love letter left by my great-great-great, many times great, grandmothers and grandfathers, the sages of my ancestral line. In the spiritual tradition […]

Note: This is not a story about holistic versus allopathic medicine. It’s a story about how far we venture into the warzones of our own bodies and hearts when facing a fertility challenge. It’s about who we become and what we speak up for as a result of our own experience.  It’s about how we […]

“Give a bow for me,” says my husband, Ed, as I walk out the door. I’m late again for my date with Peace, my ongoing 9/11 Bowing Project. But Peace is patient. She waits for me. Once in town, looking for a shade I walk into the real estate office across from my usual station […]