I finished this up this weekend for my students in Book Of Days, which is a year long art journaling offering that I've been doing since 2012. It was super fiddly to work on because all those fruits and leaves and things are collage. Cut, paste, cut paste. Not my...

I never used to be much of a planner. I either had a j.o.b. or I was a stay at home mom, and my brain was capable of holding whatever was required within it without needing elaborate planning systems. These days, however, I *need* to plan or my life gets away from me,...

Originally posted in April 2015 Trust is a huge topic of conversation between myself and my Self. It tends to go something like this: "But I'm shit scared!" "Trust that whatever happens, you can handle it." "But things could go wrong!" "And things have gone wrong...

A few posts ago, I wrote about how I'm mostly 'in the trenches', in the muck & mire of real life, and how I believe we're all made of mud. Lotuses, rooted in the deep dark mud of our every day lives. Mud reminds me of wallowing. Elephants do it. Rhinos do it. They...

Tarot was my own personal yellow brick road. Let me explain! I started using tarot back in the late 1980's not long after my first child was born. I was living in a basement suite, and my upstairs neighbor, a wonderful woman who was just old enough to be my mom, took...

Lo, way back when I was young-ish, I had a lover of the 'show up at 3 in the morning' kind. He worked in the service industry, so he'd end his shift, have a few drinks, and then cab over, half drunk, to knock gently on my door. We'd stand there, he and I, for a moment...

Before I dive in, I wanted to tell you that Life Book 2018 is open for registration, but just in case you hadn't, here's a coupon code! LOVEBOMB2018 will get you 20% off if you use it before the end of December, and a portion of the proceeds of sales in the first...