Living In My Hands As someone who has studied wide-awakeness for a long time, I need to be reminded that wide-awakeness is about living in our hands. It is about getting out of our heads and into the world, the body, the dirt. It is about con...

Dear NEEAAReSt and Dearest, Mother's Day is always difficult for me.  It often seems like a cocktail of grief and sadness with a twist of regret. A few years ago, on Mother's Day, I started writing a weekly "letter" (blog post) t...

My life coach had encouraged me to celebrate the completion of my memoir, The Stage Is On Fire. I had been working on the manuscript for well over three years in supportive writing classes, with patient editors, in a coffee shop surrounded by fe...

How should a poet properly live and write? What is his relationship to his own voice, his own place, his literary heritage and his contemporary world. Seamus Heaney I attended the Ellmann Lectures at Emory University a few years ago. Distinguish...