One blue hand reaching towards a red hand over a mirror rainbow sky, Art Card Ten of Wands, Knight of Disks.

Tarot Improvisation: Creating Your Own Tarot-Inspired Art

Living 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…
candles, flower bouquet, "wish" star, "believe" star, Rider Waite Smith tarot deck

Using the Tarot to Ask and Answer What Kind of Writer or Artist am I?

Waving 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…
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Using the Tarot to Mine Your Life for Writing Material

I 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…
Oliver the orange cat in front of the side building at Rockvale Writers' Colony in front of yellow sign with blue cursive letters that spell believe beside chair and a

Garden of Gratitudes: Rockvale Writers’ Colony and Two Gardens

In 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…
deep red petaled rose, backlit gold and unfurling in red ridges descending gold. while lipped petals too

July Classes: Pathways to Illuminations, Ruminations, and Poetry

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…
Peacock Feather, The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, two lines of poem Two Gardens tucked in book

Rocvkale Review Poetry Contest and Residency Award News

I 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…