I’ve been trying to read Carol Lee Flinders’ book Enduring Grace and am having to confront my repugnance for asceticism. The first female...

Keri Smith has a great exercise in Living Out Loud in which you get a box and start a clipping file of anything that interests you. After...

Mark Nepo writes in The One Life We’re Given of finding grace and wonder in the act of spoon feeding his invalid father. It’s a...

In If Women Rose Rooted, Sharon Blackie recounts the myth of Mis, who goes wild with grief at her father’s death, becoming crazed and...

I think of MFK Fisher as a food writer, but last night as I cozied up to Last House and a piece of pie (MFK Fisher would probably not...

Looking at Katharine Hepburn’s busy 7th house, we realize that she was not going to be allowed to skip the class on human relationships...

Carolyn Myss’s Sacred Contracts and Archetype Cards were my introduction to oracle cards and what I think can be called soul-exploration....

Mars is transiting through my first house right now and I am beginning to feel some battle fatigue. The past couple of weeks have brought...

Oscar Wilde wrote "All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling." Harold Bloom paraphrased Wilde's idea as "all bad poetry is sincere."...

Harold Bloom wrote, “Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?” I find lots of wisdom in biographies. People...

"Most of us have a gap in our lives between where we find ourselves and the life we actually want to be living. It's time for you to look...

"Read books. They are good for us." Wild Mind, Natalie Goldberg "... books have been my windows on to vast tracts of experience, both...

I see her walking on a path through a pathless forest or a maze, a labyrinth. As she walks, she spins and the fine threads fall behind...

Happy birthday to Buckminster Fuller, born July 12, 1895. He was a man of seemingly uninhibited uniqueness, to use a Jill Badonsky...

“Every day is filled with opportunities to be amazed, surprised, enthralled—to experience the enchanting everyday. To stay eager. To be,...

Reading Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird, I noticed that her advice for developing a fictional character could also be helpful in finding an...

As noted in a previous post, I love to make zines. Often I fill them with inspirational tidbits that I clip from magazines. Here's one...

In troubled, fear-driven times, it can be helpful to hit pause and turn your attention, even for a moment, to things that fill you with...

A visit to the thrift store today resulted in me now owning this treasure of a book on painter Henri Rousseau, who personifies...

In her delightful book Iris Apfel: Accidental Icon, Apfel gives her definition of success: "If you're happy, have found love, are...