• October 6, 2026

    Dear Dreamers, Erik Erikson says that by your 60’s, you’ve reached generativity mode and I agree: it hits you like a triple espresso. I turned 65, and my slow, post-Covid, [...]

  • July 25, 2026

    Dear Dreamers, I'm moving next week, so my message will be brief. East Tennessee has been beautiful in every way, and it's hard to leave. Someday I'll write a truly [...]

  • December 18, 2025

    For your holiday reading I offer not a dream, but a long-ago memory, which in retrospect affected me like a big dream. (Whatever Big Sweetie needs us to find, we [...]

  • November 11, 2025

    “The place where you are right now, God circled on the map for you…. The Beloved has bowed there, knowing you were coming.” -Hafiz I’ve been restless lately, anxious about [...]

  • August 2, 2022

    Now that I live in a world where I hear cows (and roosters and horses) from my porch every morning, I notice things I might otherwise have missed, like this [...]

  • June 3, 2022

    ​Imagine this as your dream: It's early morning, you’re on vacation somewhere far away, maybe a town in Japan or Greece or Kenya . You’re just sitting in the park, [...]

  • May 10, 2022

    Early one morning, as we drove from suburb into farmland, my friend’s dashboard emitted a worrisome DING and this warning appeared on the GPS screen: ​ Unverified Area? Like Brigadoon, Narnia, [...]

  • March 11, 2022

    My little cousins came to visit, and we made a fine mess. Seedballs!  Flower seeds mixed into potting soil and clay, then dried into portable pods.  You throw them here [...]