I am up close to 4am trying to concentrate on finishing my book, but my mind is elsewhere, so I need to dump it somewhere…so here it goes. FUCK CANCER. A dear friend and the husband of my spiritual brother is laying in the ICU of City of Hope right now on life support. We have been told he will never wake up. I will never get to hear his laugh, see his smiling Irish eyes and talk to him about life again. In the last 10 years, I have seen WAY too many people be touched by Canc

This year marks a decade that I have been receiving Darshan (Hugs) from Amma The Hugging Saint. Coming to her as a 40 year old woman truly has been different from any of the trips in my 30’s. My first trip I was literally crawling up to her on my hands and knees sobbing in a blind haze of tears. The soundtrack to this movie of my soul’s passage was the quickening beats of the Tabla drums and beautiful Hindu Chants swirling around my ears. I had no idea what I was doing…yet it

I am taking a writing class specifically geared towards writing a memoir by an awesome friend of mine who has written many! Since “Baptism By Flame” is my memoir about my fire…I decided this is the class I needed to take, and I am SO glad I did.  She is giving us lots of drills with writing, and this last bit of homework I did today made me cry…so I wanted to share it. We were given the homework of writing a page and a half or so about a specific thing that has happened to us

I can’t believe that the last time I blogged was my last day in Trinidad. I kept meaning to blog, and had amazing things happen in life that were definitely blog-worthy, but for whatever reason…I have not had the time, nor the muses’ push to open up my blog and post something until now. The Humboldt Muses have had their way with me for the past few days, and I am bursting with the desire and deep need to write. As per usual, my life has been on hyper-drive since I left this m