“At the end as at the start, and through all the in-betweens, I love you.”  Amal El-Mohtar This week I am thinking about beginnings — the beginning of a new school year, the beginning of a new job, the beginning of a new season, the beginni...

Earlier this month, I started taking a writing class. We are writing weekly exercises inspired by Ross Gay's Book of Delights. Part of our charge is to find, and write about, a delight every day, as Gay had done in writing his book. I hope to share m...

I was given my first Ganesha in 1998. I was in a women’s prayer group in Indianapolis. I was moving to Bellingham, Washington, and the group gave me a small bronze Ganesha at the final meeting before I left. The small statue had a card attached tha...

Seth Godin was my first “Yes.” Let me explain. In 2017, heartbroken and eyeballs deep in despair, I started searching for things for which to be grateful. I asked myself the question asked by poet Katie Farris “Why write love poetr...