The Art & Nature Connection
Contrary to popular perception this vast openness is much more than an empty void; for lovers of the natural world and creatives, it is a living canvas.
What Western Women Can Teach Us About Misogyny
The history of the American West provides a powerful blueprint for challenging misogynistic systems…
Where We Belong
We are blessed in this life not by what we own, but by what we are willing to notice and allow into our experience
On Fitting In…
Another dangerous aspect to conformity is that too often these social circles function as silent enforcement agencies…
Turning Toward the Light
I had no fluency then for the many languages love knows, most of which, I have now come to realize, live not in actual words that are spoken.
The Cost of the Written Word
…motor skills needed to coordinate our fingers to hold and manipulate a pen or pencil activates multiple areas of the brain simultaneously and requires it to process many things at once.
Love Language Out West
If, like me, you were raised out here in the last century, around hard-working folks who had no time nor patience for monkeyshine, then you are probably familiar with a couple other languages of love.
Good & Bad of Western Stoicism
The indelible nature of such blessings that are a common backdrop to our lives here, reminds me that not everything needs to be put into words…
L’Amour Country
A change of pace with different scenery so often can offer a person a new perspective on things—as can a good book that finds you at just the right time.
Women On Fire
Industries of anti-aging products, surgical procedures, and pharmaceutical prescriptions all regard menopause as a tragic affliction requiring intervention, or a chronic illness needing medical treatment.