Your body warm, pressed against mine, a sweetness oozes into me. Its intensity is almost painful. It swells within me. I want to drown in it. Your ... Read more
An Awakening
Sometimes you have to go far away from home before you can understand why what you have might be too much. Several years ago, I went to Mexico for ... Read more
Baseball Love
The muscles in my legs work hard to carry me to the end where the field meets the trees. I hear dried leaves crunch beneath my weight before I soar ... Read more
Cats
Cat eyes looking out at the world ready to pounce galvanize into action by a single motion until they balance thought into perfect contentment and ... Read more
Choosing To Be Happy
Everyone wants to be happy. Whether it comes from fulfillment in our work, contentment in our relationships, pride in our children, or passion in our ... Read more
Dreamtime
The smell of victory reeked in the delivery room. The crackpot, Rachet Man, followed his dream at the Institute of Grace while waiting to be born. It ... Read more
Goodnight Kiss
Here is a good night kiss for you, my love, my heart. Only a blue ribbon of moonlight divides us but you seem so far away. Your lips that part to ... Read more
Home Still Exists
Such a comfort there is in knowing that home still exists. Where the attic is filled with my toys and the aspen trees are inscribed with the name of ... Read more
How to Make a Woman Fall in Love
A man will win and keep the heart of a woman if he follows one simple set of principles. It is called the PEACH method of dating and the results will ... Read more
Jealousy
Try not to question my love, For I have sought deep within me Cussed at me Cursed and been Cruel to me Do not lay blame on my heart For yesterday’s ... Read more
Living with a Positive Attitude
Living with a positive attitude paints your world in bright colors and attracts positive energy. Here's what you need to do: Realize you have the ... Read more
Love Is
Love is a rose and it rose and rose . . . how far it goes no one knows . . . but it got beyond my nose . . . and tried to slip between my toes . . ... Read more
Making Lemonade
You know the old saying: When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. It’s relatively easy to be positive, motivated, and engaged when all is going ... Read more
Mountains
Why do you ride that contraption? When they go up to the mountains, they sing, they dance, they have too much to give. They leave such things ... Read more
My Miracle Heart
When my ex-husband and I parted ways, I was angry. Our marriage had not been good for a lot of reasons. And though I was relieved the ordeal was ... Read more
On Aging
I was at a wedding Saturday with a lot of women in their 20s and 30s in sexy dresses, their youthful skin aglow. And even though I was 20 or 30 years ... Read more
Open Mind, Open Heart
If you want to live the peaceful life you imagine, you must start now. “Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on ... Read more
Poetry in Motion
I love the speed of poetry. The swift nature of it, read aloud, racing with the blood. Then it surprises with soft fluidity, pausing around the ... Read more
Pretty
Feeling pretty has never been a priority in my life. Feeling smart, talented, adventurous, capable, interesting, witty, etc., have all taken ... Read more
Slow Down to Savor Life
I've been known to tell people that I'm so busy, I don't have time to breathe. It might be an exaggeration, but there are some days when I simply have ... Read more
Table Inhabitants
A green, metallic ashtray, its belly scattered with old cigarette butts and torn packages of Sugar Twin. A crumpled napkin, two quarters, two pennies, ... Read more
Ten Tips for a Happier Life
When will you be happy? Will you be happy when you find the perfect partner, save up enough to take that trip, when your children get straight A’s, ... Read more
The Darkening
There the wild man of the darkening cried treading softly with startling care in this waning night a beast so rare retreating from the coming ... Read more
The Seed
There is a tree in a garden I am sworn to protect. Once as you walked by you dropped a seed and I saw where it fell and I broke ground around ... Read more
The Simplicity of Tea
When I drink tea, there is only me, and the tea. The rest of the world dissolves. There are no worries about the future. No dwelling on past mistakes. ... Read more
Those Who Love
Those who love the most Do not talk of their love; Francesca, Guenevere, Dierdre, Iseult, Heloise In the fragrant gardens of heaven Are silent, or ... Read more
Twilight of Summer
When the night sky gazes more brightly than the trees, peeping out from behind in a vivid blue harmony against the dark cover, I know . . . it is the ... Read more
Two Steps
I have always been two steps after tomorrow dreaming of some new glory ahead of myself with desire and taking everything with me as I go never leaving ... Read more
Udine Beach
In need of solitude I had found a revealing silence waiting at the dividing line between sand and sea. Blinded by an illusion and summoned to ... Read more
What to Do When Your Relationship is Not Working Out
“Relationship” is defined as ‘the way in which two or more people or organizations regard and behave toward each other.’ It could be a work-related ... Read more
Why I Did It
I was a little hesitant getting on the subway that Sunday morning, the day that the New York Times magazine ran my portrait on its front cover. As ... Read more
You Don’t Have That Kind of Time
“Oh my God, what if you wake up some day, and you're 65, or 75, and you never got your memoir or novel written, or you didn't go swimming in those ... Read more