Nature is my soul medicine and now that I have been able to get out of bed these last two months I am loving, more than ever, being in my garden, on mountain tops, under trees and wading along cold creeks.  I have had a lot of interesting commentary regarding my diagnosis of cancer.  Some […]

As the green summer leaves fade like a watercolor into golden ambers and mustards, the old China Berry tree facing the west of my yard begins to shed again.  This is the Earth’s way of telling me October has arrived bearing a season of transition.  With it comes the early set of a resting sun, […]

It is official,  my first semester of graduate school is complete. I made it,  and I only thought about quitting ten thousand times. Well,  maybe not ten thousand but a few. I probably shouldn’t admit that,  but then again,  I have made a commitment to speak my truth even if it is not what people […]