Tarot Improvisation: Creating Your Own Tarot-Inspired Art
Transformative BloggingLiving in this pandemic-induced dual awareness of the cozy home orbit and the grave, grey anxiety of the collective mortality we face globally has brought me back to my desk where I’ve been coloring into the night as an antidote.
If you…
Using the Tarot to Ask and Answer What Kind of Writer or Artist am I?
Transformative BloggingWaving from my kitchen table to yours under “shelter in place” orders in California as of last night due to the coronavirus, with time to take stock of yesterday’s joys. Here’s a simple tarot reading you can do for yourself based on…
Using the Tarot to Mine Your Life for Writing Material
Transformative BloggingI am so pleased to announce a new tarot writing course I'll be teaching through Antioch University's online Inspiration to Publication program this spring; you can sign up here. I am delighted to share my passion for working with the tarot in…
Garden of Gratitudes: Rockvale Writers’ Colony and Two Gardens
Transformative BloggingIn early October I headed to College Grove, Tennessee (about 45 minutes from Nashville) for a beautiful week-long residency at The Rockvale Writers’ Colony, won with a poem (based on a time-themed contest back in May), Two Gardens, which is…
July Classes: Pathways to Illuminations, Ruminations, and Poetry
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Everywhere in nature I see invitations to go the distance as a writer and artist. Take this rose, bid by the sun to unfurl from center out, leaving in its spiral form and spectrum of petal reds and golds a reminder to obey the heat and hold…
Rocvkale Review Poetry Contest and Residency Award News
Transformative BloggingI am so pleased to announce that “Two Gardens” (from Berkeley Postcard, a collection of poems about my mother) has won the first Rockvale Writers’ Colony poetry contest on the theme of Time. "Two Gardens" will appear in Rockvale Review…