Many times every day I am stopped in my tracks (sometimes literal “tracks”) in awe. This morning, settling down to work, I looked out the window to my left and once again, and was overcome by gratitude. Gratitude greases the joints to let us let go, and at the same time to stop and realize …
A few years ago, after returning from nearly a decade abroad, the better part of it in the bush in Malawi, I asked a friend of mine who has been more “hip” than I since junior high, “What’s ‘lmao’?” She “lhao’ed” as she updated me on tech slang. Yesterday, my son and I donned the …
I’m writing from one of the most beautiful places in Washington State, where we’ve been offered sanctuary amid the coronavirus crisis. If I were to list the ways of late in which I have been blessed to the point of astonishment, it would go on for pages. I couldn’t have earned this, resourced it, networked …
Recently, I hosted a community potluck, mostly comprised of international students. One of them is taking a masters level course in interpretation. When, as it does, the conversation switched to…
The K-3 version of Truth About Trolls went up at Edmonds Heights K-12 thanks to an army of volunteer moms and dads! The amazing Dorothy Pierce directed the production.
After four months collaborating on writing and composing with middle school students from Orca Film & Drama Academy, we performed a staged reading of Act 1 at the Seattle Playwrights Salon. That provided us the perfect platform to “cut our teeth”. Click here to see photos of our first full production and for a conversation …
People brought to the U.S. as children can apply for the status, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). For argument’s sake, if Bonnie and Clyde’s had their son in the back seat of their getaway car, should he be sent to jail for bank robbery?
I was rushing somewhere – I don’t even remember where – harried by my to-do list and the toxic news, when I stopped in my tracks. “Nature’s pom-poms!” were waving over my head, as if it was Arbor Day’s remake of Legally Blonde, ridiculously cheerful. I couldn’t help but stop, and look, and smile, breathe deeply, …
“Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.”
Gandalf, in The Fellowship of the Ring, the first book in the series by J.R.R. Tolkien
I struggled to sleep last night. After the incredible energy push to begin our Tour – the adrenaline of enthusiastic receptions at churches in Edmonds, followed by student meetings and a warm, lifelong-friends-creating time in Vancouver, our next destination was disappointing at best. I was appalled when we witnessed a hateful, political debate in a …
