The High Shelf is here!!! This is a special moment—and a bit surreal. So much work goes into making any book, and I can say this book in particular has been such a labor of love—and time. As many of you know, this book has been over a decade in the making, and it...
I’m just back from Vermont, where it felt like real summer: lots of swimming and cooking over the outside fire in the evening. When Simone, my 14-year-old, and I were walking on the path around our field, we looked down at our feet and noticed tiny wild...
I’m in Colorado. It’s Eric’s 50th Birthday(!!) and the two of us taking for a mini vacation…shh…we’re playing hookey! We’re going to hike, explore new places and mostly be together…something special to be in this moment now. Yes, we’re getting older,...
The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you Don’t go back to sleep!You must ask for what you really want. Don’t go back to sleep!People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch, The door is round and open Don’t go back...
Many years ago, my therapist asked me, “do you see the glass half full or half empty?” I generally liked and respected and was helped by this therapist, but her question really bothered me. I went home and wrote a poem about that question—I imagined a mountain...
Sometimes my students ask me whether it’s okay to write from anger. I tell them, of course it is. Anger can be a good motivator. Often we have good reason to be angry, and our anger can help us be social justice warriors. It can direct us towards making...
