Articles about Wisdom

I’m Speaking

February 20, 2021

I’m Speaking. Who’s the “I”? Over a year ago, I started “Method Writing” classes with poet and teacher, Jules Swales. The classes are sculpted around writing like you talk.

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Why I wore pearls…

January 21, 2021

My pearls were indigo blue. Their color symbolizes justice and wisdom. Before I watched Kamala Harris become vice president of the United States, I clasped my pearls around my neck.

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The Lady’s Canticle

September 13, 2020

In this time of schism, rent as it is with bitterness, sorrow, and grief, what I want to write about often seems irrelevant. I’m a dinosaur. An anachronism.

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Friendship is a Grace

August 15, 2020

“Grammy, we’re friends, right?” he said. We sat at the kitchen island side-by-side eating lunch, my 3-year-old grandson and I.

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Second Chances

August 10, 2020

I’m a sucker for a new appliance and a fresh clothes dryer was coming through the laundry door – I was tickled pink.

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Prayer to the Black Madonna

August 7, 2020

“Sorry,” I said to the Madonnas in my office, my voice as small as a whisper. The ceiling fan whipped the word into disjointed letters.

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Restriction

July 14, 2020

A mystical, wild, green path through a maze ends in a thick tangle of hedges. It’s a drawing on an oracle card from the deck, “Wisdom of Avalon.”

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The Curse of Secrets

July 13, 2020

The compliment I cherish from those paid to me across my career as a mental health counselor is, “I could tell you anything.” I do not judge secrets.

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Love Behind Identity

July 11, 2020

Our friendship was forged in parenting daughters who became best friends in first grade and remain so, thirty years later. We were a study in cultural contrasts.

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Balancing Our Stories

July 4, 2020

I’m a natural storyteller, a bard, and I love stories. I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to hold a balance of stories in my heart, stories of happiness and love right alongside stories of pain and suffering.

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