The Big Love. My mother, my ally. She didn't look the heroine. She didn't do grand things in a dramatic way. She didn't make or seek...

Image credit Pixiewinks Wineskins 101. What of guidance and angels and reassurance from energies beyond what we perceive? I can't speak...

Photo by Larry Mars Weather Report Last Sunday the earth moved in and whispered a secret into the moon’s left ear. Did you hear? The Sun,...

Diagnosed Mortal #20 This is the last hurrah as I end this series. I reflect upon my experience writing these essays and think aloud...

Diagnosed Mortal #17 This is a particularly difficult bit of personal business that reared its head in unearthing what I wrote years ago....

Banner photo credit: Larry Mars Diagnosed Mortal #14 In this episode I delicately dip my toe into the subject of atonement. While as a...

Diagnosed Mortal #13 This Blogcast examines what it is to want to be an adult and what it really takes to leave off childish things to...

Diagnosed Mortal #12 This post explores the different ways the light plays upon a human being when undeniable experiences strike without...

Art credit: Gregg Segal and his art project 7 Days of Garbage Diagnosed Mortal #11 This post is about owning choices, making reparations...

Diagnosed Mortal #10 This post is about the consequence of not talking about difficult things. In truth, talking about things not usually...

Diagnosed Mortal #8 This essay explores using the word lost when referring to a person who had died and just what that turn of phrase...

Diagnosed Mortal #7 This post is about how we avoid darkness and what that aversion and prejudice costs us in terms of our dying with...

"The radiance falls on all of us." ~Lidia Yuknavitch Diagnosed Mortal #6 I am one week into dead girl walking and I'm getting people...

Diagnosed Mortal #5 On this day, I wax poetic regarding what turned out to be a salad days redux for me at 40 years old. Who doesn't have...

Diagnosed Mortal #4 Regarding money...I laugh at this now but it took me an entire lifetime to get to the joke...and that was after many...

Shouldn't you be doing something for me right now? Diagnosed Mortal #3 How peculiar to be human beings and find ourselves in relationship...

Diagnosed Mortal #2 This post is concerned with stuff...What is to be done with it after we die? Millions of people are confronting this...

Diagnosed Mortal #1 Years ago, before I even settled down seriously to write my memoir, I thought I would give myself a writing...