Here’s what happens when a new chanting and singing practice converges with a nightmare about an oncoming tsunami and a call for poems based on how Covid19 has affected our dreams. I am grateful to my longtime poet friend Elizabeth […]
Love poetry? Love tarot? Or maybe you are curious about both. Tarot and poetry rely on images to create a connection, ask questions, inspire conversation, and bring us closer to our hearts. In my Using Tarot Imagery to Write Love […]
Living in this pandemic-induced dual awareness of the cozy home orbit and the grave, grey anxiety of the collective mortality we face globally has brought me back to my desk where I’ve been coloring into the night as an antidote. If […]
Waving from my kitchen table to yours under “shelter in place” orders in California as of last night due to the coronavirus, with time to take stock of yesterday’s joys. Here’s a simple tarot reading you can do for yourself […]
*As of Monday March 16, these classes will be held virtually. Tarot Journaling: A Heart’s Compass Approach (Hour 1) If you live in San Diego and would love to develop a relationship to the tarot by journaling weekly, join this […]
I am so pleased to announce a new tarot writing course I’ll be teaching through Antioch University’s online Inspiration to Publication program this spring; you can sign up here. I am delighted to share my passion for working with the […]
In early October I headed to College Grove, Tennessee (about 45 minutes from Nashville) for a beautiful week-long residency at The Rockvale Writers’ Colony, won with a poem (based on a time-themed contest back in May), Two Gardens, which is […]
Everywhere in nature I see invitations to go the distance as a writer and artist. Take this rose, bid by the sun to unfurl from center out, leaving in its spiral form and spectrum of petal reds and golds a […]
I am so pleased to announce that “Two Gardens” (from Berkeley Postcard, a collection of poems about my mother) has won the first Rockvale Writers’ Colony poetry contest on the theme of Time. “Two Gardens” will appear in Rockvale Review […]
Here’s a recent sketch, using one of my favorite exercises from the Heart’s Compass Tarot and Writing Workbook I’m working hard to finish this month. For this exercise, you draw three tarot cards in order to create a drawing of […]