This is to the women who get up everyday with a song in their heart despite living in a world that’s tried to silence them. This is for the women who make meals from miracles when there are hungry ...

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I sat across from her at a long table. We were in a group—something that still makes my nervous system hum with the old familiar tension of being watched, evaluated, or expected to perform. She looked ...

“We killed a bad man, that’s good! How dare you question this!,” I keep being told on social. You have faith in Trump, these days? Then I have a bridge to sell you. If you think Trump, or Israel, are ...

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There was once a man who was visited by three goddesses. They were attempting to settle a dispute between them, a trifling matter to determine which of them held claim to the golden apple that had ...

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Everyone and their mom knows, at least intellectually, that the whole of creation is in a state of endless revolution. The Greek philosopher Heraclitus famously said, “No same man could walk through ...

He helps answer the questions that bewilder us. He dresses experiences with words. He makes it easier for us to understand matters of the heart, the mind, and the soul. Before delving into his poems, ...