Today*
Rushing things. Trying to check my email while rescheduling my acupuncture appointment. Not the worst thing in the world as long as I don’t press send. I have tried to save my children from too much of this multi-tasking sound bite world too soon by trying to limit...
Whose Coffin Would You Carry?
Friday night, I went to see Fela on Broadway. It was, in turns, jubilant and heart wrenching – most notably when the projected mugshots that followed the storming of his compound reminded the audience that the bigger-than-life characters we were dancing with were...
This Train Takes Me Back to Hiroshima
Today's thoughts on memory and narrative have found a home on the Huffington Post. You can read it here. A sample: "On September 11th, 2001, however, my keitai denwa (my little Japanese cellphone) rang, and a friend told me that a plane had just smashed into the World...
Tarot
Seventy-eight new spirits have taken up residence in my house, or perhaps just one spirit with 78 voices. They are the cards in Rachel Pollack’s Shining Tribe Tarot, and they seem quite pleased at the prospect of celebrating the sacred truth and spirit of the...
Writing
I have been thinking recently about how to enter a book. The best way, I think, is just to step into it. Wrap the pages around you like a favorite blanket. Let the ink smudge your cheek, the words seep into your skin.
Shells
Like the story of the princess and the pea, the little bump of snow in the center of the table is an echo of sea shells, which my dear friend and amazing poet Elena Georgiou gave me. Even in winter, summer is present. Even in adulthood, the child in us still shapes...
Yes
A question from Rob Brezsny: Do you promise to push hard to get better and smarter, grow your devotion to the truth, fuel your commitment to beauty, refine your emotions, hone your dreams, wrestle with your shadow, purge your ignorance, and soften your heart -- even...
Remembrance
To mark today - which is the Day of Remembrance for the Japanese-Americans, the 68th anniversary of the Executive Order that would put 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry into American internment camps - a small excerpt from the manuscript of my new memoir, Hiroshima...
Dizzy
I've been rendered speechless by the idiocy in the conversation about Obama's plan to build more nuclear power plants. Is it the counter-argument about regulation? (Nuclear power plants are problematic because regulations are so restrictive...so let's just ease those...
Happy Your Day
Thinking about Valentine’s Day and Presidents’ Day. Our best Presidents, the ones we really need, are pathmakers. Writers are also pathmakers. Someone (okay, an incredible writer and a witch) once told me that I was a pathmaker, that it was my job to walk into the...