When The Past Shows Up For Tea
My friend Christie and I have been creative writing together since Cooper was a baby, roughly 13 years now. We met through lifelong, high...
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So, This is Fifty.
Two weeks before my fiftieth birthday I took a pregnancy test. I felt phantom sensations for weeks, and I dismissed them for all sorts of...
The Tender Pursuit of Reinvention: And Other Tales From Choosing a New Career
I had the funniest conversation with my brother a few weeks ago. He was retelling his experience of a job interview process with a...
How to Outsmart Feeling Stuck and Do It Anyway
For as much as I get done in a day (and it’s a lot!), I’m in a constant negotiation with this feeling of being stuck. When I say “stuck”,...
Artificial Intelligence: A Creative's Best Friend or Worst Nightmare?
If you occupy a space anywhere near the interwebs, then you are hearing a lot about the take over of Artificial Intelligence (AI). If...
Raising Cayo
A beautiful little surprise came into our life a few months ago that really took us on a journey. I pulled into the driveway after school...
When Women Gather
A beautiful thing started to happen for me in the spring of last year when I was invited to my first women’s retreat in Arizona. It was...
The Practice of Making Space
If you’ve followed this blog or the podcast, then you know I refer often to the practice of purging, which I willingly do on a regular...
Why Moms Are Hard to Celebrate
What happens when a planning mom arrives to Mother's Day, and she's not supposed to plan anything?
For the Love of Money
MONEY. MONEY. MONEY. What a charged and ever-present topic. Money can hold meaning in significantly different ways for all of us,...
On Going Without
What happens when we go without our vices for a few days? Once the physical withdrawal was over, what was left to deal with surprised me.
Manifesting India
If you’ve been following me on social media, you’ll know that last December, under the full winter solstice moon I wrote a poem about...
Me, You and India, Too.
What NOT to Do When You Arrive to India The first time I visited India was in 2018. I traveled with my daughter Sophia, who was at the...
A Podcast Is Born!
If you've been following along here at Muse On the Mountain, then you know I made a pretty radical career departure in July. There was...
The Accidental Feminist: How Iranian Women's Push for Freedom Is Everyone’s Fight
I’m an accidental feminist, and I’m a bad one at that. I don’t own any paraphernalia, I rarely bring it up in conversation, and I’ve...
Dia de Los Muertos (y los borrachos)
My feet were still hovering above the earth that October. I had just arrived to the World Heritage city of Antigua in the Guatemalan...
The Last Leg
The last leg of the trip before heading home was all about family. We left my parent’s in Arizona and flew out to be reunited with Ryan...
To Denver, with Love
Resident Inn in the business district was not the plan for Denver. The plan was to stay in the suburbs with friends, and hike, and enjoy...
For the Rockies
We’ve gone to Ouray, Colorado and we’re never coming back! So said the gods of thunder and lighting and fevers and headaches. Out of Zion...
For Zion (part 1)
We last left off on the heat-beaten road to Vegas. In the hotel there was migraine recovery, over-priced food, a roof-top pool, and...
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