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...
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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...
How to Quit a Perfectly Good Job
The interesting things about the trajectory of my career is that I’ve become whatever it is I’ve decided to be. But if I were to graph...
What If I Was Happy, the Year I Decided to Try
I didn’t even know what the word Happiness meant to me, or what it looked like out in the real world.
A Letter to My Younger Self
But this time, for a fleeting exhale, I allowed myself to look past all of that and see you in a way that normally doesn’t have a chance.
On Writer's Block: Why Shame and Perfection Make Ridiculous Bedfellows
The real crime is that I listen. I put down the pen and agree that it’s awful.
What COVID Gave Us
How COVID might change us for the better.
Confession of a Mom Who Yells
I have to admit, I thought this space would be filled with cute little stories of goat parkour, and tales of life with the kids. Like the...
Happy Anniversary, the Oven is Dead.
We celebrated our 15th anniversary in October. Our plan was to walk downtown to the Italian place that we’ve been going to since we...
Death Touched Down
Death touched down. It’s always around us, but sometimes it comes so very close, alights on a nearby perch, and with its beady eye...
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