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  • Happy 14th Anniversary WIND.

    It is hard to believe that WIND is 14 years old – it began as a collaborative effort between Dial Help – and myself. The idea was to have a group of women that would explore creative expressions – Women… Continue reading

  • The Unofficial First Member

    I am part of a group of women who are in the incubation stages of forming a place where women can meet and share their journeys.  While its focus or its intentions is to help women travel their personal journey… Continue reading

  • Not being Free.

    I listened to a woman speak yesterday in her audio book, Carmen Bin Laden “Inside the Kingdom”, my life in Saudi Arabia… She was raised in Europe and married the brother to Osama Bin Laden.  So she had to do… Continue reading

  • Keep Me Down

    As I did my yoga after work, a frivolous task I labeled it, since I opted to do this instead of a domestic chore or something of a higher priority, I just went ahead and took the liberties of time… Continue reading

  • Until she can find her own.

    The hardest part of being a mom is when your child takes an exit that you didn’t see coming and they seem to disappear from the usual landscape and it leaves you separated. And I am not even sure what… Continue reading

  • Let me be Free!

    While many may not feel or experiences brushes from souls passed, I feel the presence of my father’s sister, the one who taught me how to quilt, who set me on a path of playing with fabric that suited my… Continue reading

  • You Break the Chain

    Grand Traverse Women Magazine was asking about articles on Motherhood, and immediately I felt that I had a unique perspective in how my mothering changed as I unraveled my life of abuse. It is like my children had two different… Continue reading

  • The Journey….

    In Kim Rosen’s book, “Saved by a Poem” she writes, “ I discovered how the separating lines of culture and age can dissolve in the presence of a poem the first time I went to Africa. In Kenya, at the… Continue reading

  • Tree In Tree

    By Deena Metzger “I am no longer afraid of mirrors where I see the sign of the amazon, the one who shoots arrows. There was a fine red line across my chest where a knife entered, but now a branch… Continue reading

  • Right For You.

    I read a wonderfully inspiring book at the Beach House, “Unraveled” by Maria Housden.   She writes about a conversation she had with her dad about the choices she made that went against conventional thinking, but that spoke to her… Continue reading