Microscopic Word

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. ― Maya Angelou

don’t have many rules about my collage process, but one that I stick to pretty hard and fast is that I don’t use words. Words

Send your camel to bed. As it turns out I’d always misheard this line as “sing your camel to bed,” which sounds so much more

For my money, you won’t find a better book on writing than Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life. My well-worn

Last night was the super moon, and it really was spectacular, all low slung, bright and big. I adore Billy Collins, and as luck would

The first time my friend Mara* kissed her now boyfriend, she fainted and saw the hand of the Buddha. What did it all mean, she

“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.” Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat,

Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary

When my son was about four years old, there was a pigeon with a bum wing walking around our townhouse parking lot. The conversation went