The second funeral service I ever wrote and presided at was for an artist who was the family's gay and ex-communicated black sheep. The...

Pesach, 2016 Here is the thing of it when we are in the narrow place squozen by the pressures of our time there is no thought of...

There I was, sitting in an exam room in a medical office thinking, can I just say fuck you? Because the medical professional taking my...

I read this story from the stage of the Great Falls Word Festival at the Shea Theater, in October, 2018, just days after the fatal...

There is a deep need many people have to keep the ordinary conversation of life going, even though the person they have this conversation wi

Someone I care about died. I lit a candle for their soul transition and placed it on my kitchen windowsill, then stood washing pots and...

I took the Phone of the Wind on the road again, this time to Toronto and the International Death Symposium. Every time I bring a new...

A version of a piece I posted here became a magazine article! published this month in Natural Transitions Magazine. Here is a screen shot...

Another day at the office: gratitude for the unspoken. Here I am again, pointing out the existence of what is left unsaid. What is swept...

I sit to watch the sea and for the comfort of wiggling my toe in the sand. I am done throwing cups of sorrow into the ocean...

Most of us have heard of that rare person who sees the worth in us even during the worst moments of our existence; even those gutter...

In my work as an End-of-life Navigator and Funeral Celebrant I hear the early stories families tell when someone has died. Sometimes...

This April photo was taken two years ago, a few weeks before I knew I was going to need another round of major spine surgeries. I had...

A spot in the woods by running water, and another spot in the woods at the top of a knoll; a farm in New England on a windless and slate...

About a year ago I learned about The Phone of the Wind. A man in Japan, Itaru Sasaki, had a phone booth made for his garden. The phone...

... between feeling worse and getting better, it helps to have a plan to feed my resilience and build my sense of wellbeing.

When someone close to us is close to death, a person we have been caretaker to, or with whom we share a deep relationship, we understand...

The world is full of interesting things to learn and it is my experience that each day brings a gem. Today I've stayed home and cozy...