There are many snapshot moments, snippets of my own story, that have led me to create 'Women's Rites'.  Moments which have woken me up to the need to mark life transitions that our culture chooses to ignore.  Today, with the bare trees and the nip of winter in the air,...

"We think we tell stories, but stories often tell us, tell us to love or to hate, to see or to be blind.  Often, too often, stories saddle us, ride us, whip us onward, tell us what to do, and we do it without questioning.  The task of learning to be free requires learn...

One sunny day, I met up with my friend Claire Genkai by the sea and we talked stories, personal and mythic.  We became curious about how our personal narrative can be reframed to enable change; how moments of ‘melt down’ can hold the potential to create new stories aro...