In celebration of the San Diego Writer’s Festival, Susan J. Farese of SJF Communications conducted interviews with participating authors. Here’s a link to the San Diego Writer’s Festival website where you can find the full schedule of events, all free and open […]
Daffodils, rain, transport by poetry connecting kindreds everywhere we turned: Hundreds of writers flooding AWP, Portland, where I served writers with three card tarot readings and learned about so many of their own beautiful writing projects and dreams. We dove […]
Happy February! How has the month of love treated you so far? So many faces the face of love wears! I hope this post finds you abundantly receiving love from all directions…your people, your family, your friends, your furries, your […]
For Songs of Survival, I am reading two poems, “Peer Counselor,” and “Opossum,” for the celebration of the anniversary of the MeToo movement at Awakenings Gallery in Chicago this coming Thursday, October 18, 2018 (go here for tickets). In making postcards […]
Under which circumstances do you experience pure joy and can you imagine inviting more into your life? How can we make such sweet goals specific and tangible? Tarot provides us with a powerful way to play with symbols in order […]
Is it true, as Carl Sandburg posits, “Poetry is a diary kept by a sea creature who lives on land and wishes he could fly?” How, as a poet, do you get yourself airborne? Whether you are simply poetry curious […]
Have you ever wrestled with angels? Named an angel? Loved or raged in the absence or presence of an angel? Whether you believe in angels or not, you will find them throughout literature, from Blake’s time to our time in […]
I’m overjoyed to share an interview with Loraine Van Tuyl, PhD, author of the spiritual memoir, “Amazon Wisdom Keeper: A Psychologist’s Memoir of Spiritual Awakening” (forthcoming from She Writes Press at the end of this month). Van Tuyl anchors us […]
What story have you kept in the cocoon? What would happen if you wrote it out, just for you? In this dual focus course, we’ll consider our heroes, both famous and family, who have inspired us. Using them as inspiration, we’ll […]
True to my hummingbird ways and love for cross-pollinations, I’m expanding my teaching and editing services to include one-on-one Tarot Consults. It’s time to combine my MFA and twenty-plus years as a writing teacher and artist with my twenty-plus years […]