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"I'm not one to hold a grudge," is something you might hear me say over the course of most of my life so far, and generally I'd be...

Happy new year! People all over the world recognize the Julian calendar, and today as the first day of a new year. Chinese new year will...

As a human being, a shamanic practitioner and a death doula, I carry a banner with the motto "Permission, Intention, Compassion." This...

There is always some idea lurking in the back of my mind, ready to leap into a blog post. And then when I make the time to sit down......

Wednesday evening as I was bringing snacks into the Berry Center on the University of Wyoming campus for the monthly Audubon Society...

Saturday was my dad's birthday. He is in a nursing home, has lived there since February, despite wanting to be at home at this point in...

I thought of calling this post "Serendipity" or "Synchronicity" because those two beautiful words cropped up often during the various...

A couple days ago I found an anonymous quote, paraphrased, "Autumn lets us see how beautiful it is to let things go." Paraphrased because...

Yesterday as I was getting ready to go out the door to set up for farmers market, the sky darkened. "Market day," I said. We all like to...

Some days I wake up with a great idea to put on paper! Other days I draw a blank. Some months when it comes time to sit in front of the...

When I was in Dominica, almost 20 years ago, every morning my 'alarm clock' blared at that moment when dawn greets the fading night and...

Last week's New York Times reported "Breaking News" that "America's population is older than ever, with a record high median age of...

Summer is officially here, according to those who go by the Memorial Day schedule. Where did May go? I spent a beautiful eight days on an...

Our first reading recommendation for The Doula Files Bookshelf is Being Mortal by Atul Gawande. In this engaging book, Gawande, a medical...

About a year ago, I was in a meeting talking about my Peace Project, in which I visit conflict sites in the expansion of the American...

Well, here we go. I had found this wonderful quote regarding GRACE on a Facebook post some time ago, and I know I downloaded it......

The numbers do not match up. A New England Journal of Medicine study showed that 80% of people wish to die at home; however, only 30%...

Tuesday shortly after midnight, I heard the sirens of fire engines somewhere in town, muffled in the night, but the only sound to hear. A...

One day last month I walked from my dad's to my mom's apartment. It's about 2 1/2 miles, and I go along back roads as much as possible....

A month in Maine- rather, a January in Maine- will prove the value of Fire, specifically in the form of our Sun. Recollections of the...