A Butterfly Lantern for Querents

Here's a recent sketch, using one of my favorite exercises from the Heart’s Compass Tarot and Writing Workbook I’m working hard to finish this month. For this exercise, you draw three tarot cards in order to create a drawing of your…
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San Diego Writer’s Festival Interview with The Bold Poet

In celebration of the San Diego Writer's Festival, Susan J. Farese of SJF Communications conducted interviews with participating authors. Here's a link to the San Diego Writer's Festival website where you can find the full schedule of events,…

Heart’s Compass Tarot and Writing at AWP 2019

Daffodils, rain, transport by poetry connecting kindreds everywhere we turned: Hundreds of writers flooding AWP, Portland, where I served writers with three card tarot readings and learned about so many of their own beautiful writing projects…

Heart’s Compass Tarot and Writing News

Happy February! How has the month of love treated you so far? So many faces the face of love wears! I hope this post finds you abundantly receiving love from all directions...your people, your family, your friends, your furries, your nature,…

Two Views of Healing: Songs of Survival

For Songs of Survival, I am reading two poems, “Peer Counselor,” and “Opossum,” for the celebration of the anniversary of the MeToo movement at Awakenings Gallery in Chicago this coming Thursday, October 18, 2018 (go here for tickets). In…

Amazon Wisdom Keeper and Spiritual Awakening: An Interview with Loraine Van Tuyl

I’m overjoyed to share an interview with Loraine Van Tuyl, PhD, author of the spiritual memoir, “Amazon Wisdom Keeper: A Psychologist’s Memoir of Spiritual Awakening” (forthcoming from She Writes Press at the end of this month).…