[Estimated reading time: 5 minutes] It’s a Wednesday in March and there are seven of us on the women’s leadership group call. I work as an editorial director on a marketing team in an education-oriented environment and have joined “Grace and Guts,” an embodied leadership program with a woman named LeeAnne Mallorie. We met at
[Estimated reading time: ≈1 minute] I always say that I don’t gravitate toward fiction, in my writing or my reading. “Why would I want to read about made-up people when real people are so interesting?” I like to “learn something,” I always say. I read about rock art discoveries, women travelers, the writing life, Henrietta
[Estimated reading time: 2+ minutes] One fall afternoon, I picked my niece up from her daycare at the top of a long country driveway. Under the loving guidance of the couple whose job it was to keep the boisterous imps engaged and happy, the little pixie and her playmates had baked Apple Loaf Cakes. “Keep
[Estimated reading time: 2 minutes] Have you ever read someone else’s diary? I mean in secret, without permission. I did. Once. I was around 24 years old and visiting a friend who had moved to a foreign country. Whatever else she had written, I no longer remember; what I do remember is reading “I worry
[Estimated reading time: <1 minute] Today I think that I love rock art because it challenges me to reckon with time, with the modern, Western clock-world I was born into, and its the linear passage of calendar days, months, years marching ever forward. Tick tock. So hard to believe it is just a concept. Face-to-face
[Estimated reading time: 5 minutes] Bill Plotkin’s book Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World is based on the premise that a more mature human society requires more mature human individuals. At this time of ecological and social crisis on planet earth, Plotkin’s visionary work offers an alternative that
[Estimated reading time: <1 minute] We met Friday, he moved in Saturday. Truth be told, I wanted a Yorkshire Terrier … had been dreaming and researching for a couple of months. But my lifestyle is simply not conducive to being responsible for a dog. Or even a cat. I love cats. But I travel for
[Estimated reading time: 1 minute] People from all of walks of life keep diaries. Enjoy these 8 great quotes about diaries from a few famous ones: Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that
[Estimated reading time: 5 minutes] It is May 2010 and I am at a mart in south-central Utah. My rental car all gassed up, I go inside to see if there is anything interesting to buy. The night before, at a motel, I had taken my first shower after a week camping in Escalante, mostly
[Estimated reading time: 1 minute] I had a conversation the other day with a man who told me that he stores absolutely everything online, and that the Oasis Pages Diary that I created belongs there, too — as an online diary. “Do you still have everything from your floppy disks from 10 years ago?” I
Writings in a variety of lengths for your reading pleasure.
Love to write yourself down regularly? Me too. And I’ve got a lot to say about this very cool human habit.
Behind the scenes with the writing of my Rock Art Mystery. Plus the mysteries of life. And more.
Letters, stories, and writings from several decades of life and now.
A tapas-sized read about something happening in my daily life or linguistically curious mind. Irregular schedule guaranteed!
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