ON THE ROAD

I left work at 5 o’clock, heading North on J-5 a few miles out of Lockeford, a small agricultural town in the Sacramento Delta, destination Mendocino. My first book event for BURNING WOMAN Memoirs of an Elder was the next evening. I was invited to be on a panel of “Three Amazing Woman Authors” at...

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THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY

THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY

When my daughter and son-in-law offered us a month on their Sausalito houseboat while they vacationed in Germany, Tom and I jumped at the chance to escape the three-digit heat of mid-summer in Calaveras County. We would also care for their ninety-pound silver lab named Ash, whom I love. During the...

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HOME ALONE – PART 3 OF 3

HOME ALONE – PART 3 OF 3

PART 3 - MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH INDIE BOOKSTORES My love affair with indie bookstores began when I moved to Berkeley in 1990. Telegraph Avenue was just a 15-minute bike ride from where I lived, a mecca for new and used books, Moe’s, Cody’s, and my favorite, Shakespeare & Co. I loved the smell and...

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HOME ALONE – PART 2 OF 3

HOME ALONE – PART 2 OF 3

PART 2 -  A CIRCLE OF WOMEN Creating ritual is a journey that begins before the actual event. There’s a sense of yearning for something you haven’t yet imagined. It needs time to rise, like bread dough, until it begins to take shape in your mind. Inspired by my sixtieth birthday rite of passage, a...

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HOME ALONE – A BLOG IN 3 PARTS

HOME ALONE – A BLOG IN 3 PARTS

Tom left for Washington D.C. on June 15th for six days. It was our first time apart since the pandemic shutdown. We’d gotten used to being together, working at home, and sleeping together every night. But it was time for Tom to go and he was excited (actually ecstatic) to be launching a new film...

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A BIRTHING

A BIRTHING

It feels like I’m in premature labor after a four-year gestation period. Contractions began last Monday when forty printed books were left on my doorstep one month earlier than expected via UPS delivery. The next day, BURNING WOMAN became available on Audible ahead of schedule. Although my...

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A ROCK GARDEN IN SPRING

A ROCK GARDEN IN SPRING

It’s spring in the Sierra foothills. Our world is coming awake after the long night of winter. I began to feel creative sap rising in me, as if I was one of the gnarly oaks on our 20 acres that were sprouting tender green leaves almost overnight.     I wanted to design a rock garden....

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ON THE RADIO

ON THE RADIO

Listening to my interview with Linda Toren, poet, teacher, and host of A Way With Words on KQBM Radio 90.7 FM, I felt like an honored guest talking with Terry Gross. The focus was my book, BURNING WOMAN, Memoirs of an Elder, to be published by She Writes Press in June 2022. Our conversation was...

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THE WEDDING

THE WEDDING

Fingers of sunlight had just begun to brush the horizon a delicate shade of pink when the hot tub called to me. Tom was still asleep. I slipped out of bed as quietly as possible, padded outside in bare feet, and sank into the warm water, steam rising in the chill air. Hearing the whispery whoo-hoo...

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FULL CIRCLE

FULL CIRCLE

Our daughter, son-in-law and silver lab are coming for Christmas! It’s a lovely surprise. At the last minute they cancelled their holiday visit with my grandson in Heidelberg due to the Omicron surge. Tom and I planned a quiet day, just the two of us, having honored Winter Solstice on the 21st...

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