Not all my stories are about the Coming of the Dark. Sometimes, we’re given a moment of beauty that reminds us that Nature continues to gift us, if we pay attention. As I pulled out of the parking lot of the Price Chopper today, a tiny butterfly, about the size of a...
Some months, weather gives us a surreal dichotomy. Several years ago, here in Upstate New York it was glorious early spring weather, and the windows were open and the birds were singing their “hey, you wanna build a nest” songs — while in Texas there was the...
Okay, this the story of a week that could, as my Britfriends say, “get in the bin.” But boy howdy, was it a lesson I needed. Being in someone else’s famous book as a highlighted contributor is a two-edged sword. I’m one of the four original channels in Robert...
When you watch cats — dogs too, but I’m a Momcat, after all — there is almost always a physical connection. Two cats sleeping together will find a way for one body to touch another as they sleep. Why? It’s comfort. It’s knowing there is another being out there who is...
A couple of years ago, I had a surprising but interesting morning… The folks at Sap Bush were shorthanded, so I got to put on an apron and channel Flo from the 1970s sitcom. I’d waitressed in college. It was like riding a bike. When dishes needed doing,...
“Praise and blame, all the same.” It’s a favorite saying of a very wise friend and mentor of mine. It was clearly in evidence last week. One day, I received two emails full of complaint: a negative review on Best Psychic Directory saying I did not answer her...
I had a very bad habit for years, and it took real work to detangle it from my soul. I used to blame myself for absolutely everything that went wrong around me. Part of it came, I know, from a dysfunctional childhood. Because my alcoholic mother would...
There is such a subtle poison in comparing yourself to others. Don’t. Please don’t. They may sound like their lives make them better than you are — they’re a CEO, or an art director, or a famous chef — or maybe they’re just someone who fits the family trope...
How many times have we heard about “those three little words” that everyone wants to hear? I love you. We’re told it’s the phrase that brings light, flowers and champagne into your life. More Hallmark movies and big-ticket rom-coms than you can catalogue are...
There is a great deal of buzz about coming down to the times of Change, the End Times, the Death of the America we know, and more. Whether or not we are in line for forced birthing camps, military law, terrorist attacks, the need to flee the United States — and I have...