Welcome to the garden.

We are on the cusp of Spring here in the high plains: warm sunny days followed by a dusting of snow or freezing rain overnight, causing...

Last month a young woman appeared right on time for Death Cafe. She had not been before and was curious. What is Death Cafe ? I explained...

I was late for a Board meeting mid-January so was the last person to do the ice breaker. I had heard a couple people respond, but hadn't...

Welcome to a new year. Welcome, New Year. This set of holidays is coming to a close, and on we go. Speaking of holidays, while at an...

It's giving season. We give thanks and gifts and help and cheer. But this month I would like to talk about receiving. Can you raise your...

Recently I was home in Maine for my parents' burial. On my last afternoon there, I visited the older of my two little brothers and his...

This past weekend I spent in Seattle with 3 other members of the National End of Life Doula Alliance (NEDA) board and over 100 others...

One week ago, before I left the house about 7:30am to begin my dog walking rounds, I snapped this photo and posted on Facebook with the...

I was just sitting out in the backyard, eyes closed, feeling the breeze and listening to the birds, when I heard a small "chirp." There...

I woke early this morning in Mom's mostly empty apartment, and lay in on the air mattress my brother had brought me, under a quilt loaned...

In April I visited my mother for a few days before heading to Italy for the first week of the 3-Year Program in Advanced Healing and...

This month I made a major realization one day when the weather, which had been unseasonably warm (but what is that, anymore?) had turned...

March has been a month of time considerations. The month brought the return of Daylight Savings Time, an event that throws many of us for...

Several days ago I woke feeling a need to write about peace. And struggling with how. Because I was angry about the war in Gaza, and what...

"I'm not one to hold a grudge," is something you might hear me say over the course of most of my life so far, and generally I'd be...

Happy new year! People all over the world recognize the Julian calendar, and today as the first day of a new year. Chinese new year will...

As a human being, a shamanic practitioner and a death doula, I carry a banner with the motto "Permission, Intention, Compassion." This...

There is always some idea lurking in the back of my mind, ready to leap into a blog post. And then when I make the time to sit down......

Wednesday evening as I was bringing snacks into the Berry Center on the University of Wyoming campus for the monthly Audubon Society...

Saturday was my dad's birthday. He is in a nursing home, has lived there since February, despite wanting to be at home at this point in...