Today I want to share with you the Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address. To be honest, for much of my life, I really struggled with both the idea and emotion of gratitude. It wasn’t that I couldn’t appreciate things, but gratitude, especially when it felt...
Today I want to share a poem, “I, Too,” by Langston Hughes. In this poem, Hughes expresses both the great shame of the inequities built into American life and the potential, beauty and need to change also built into American life. The poem responds to...
I’ve been having a similar conversation with a lot of people recently. It goes something like this: “I’m feeling really overwhelmed” my friend or student says. “I’m really worried. I don’t know what to do and I’m finding...
One of the hardest things we do as writers is balance our writing and the rest of our lives. There are all the practical aspects: how to make time for writing in our already very busy lives? How do we fit writing into our life if we also need to earn money? There is...
I’m writing from Maine again. This week, we’re on the coast where, if we’re lucky, we can see the resident seal at the dock. We’re here with my almost-16-year-old daughter, Simone, and two of her friends; since all their summer plans were canceled, our families...
