Diagnosed Mortal #17 This is a particularly difficult bit of personal business that reared its head in unearthing what I wrote years ago. It is rather clear in reading it that I had more than a little resentment around things not working out in the town I initially swooned over and chose to move to at 50 years old. I see all this very differently now, seventeen years later. Now that I understand my nature better and what I actually came here to do. I was blind to the perfecti

Diagnosed Mortal #15 In this post I reflect upon art and its place in my life. I have come a long way in better understanding how art works in my life since this essay was written...I have since written my memoir, " Different Ways; Revealing the Feminine " and over the course of that project the subject of music and art in general was gone into deeply. And so I've grown. I haven't changed my mind about anything I wrote in the essay in 2017 but I feel clearer about what art do

Banner photo credit: Larry Mars Diagnosed Mortal #14 In this episode I delicately dip my toe into the subject of atonement. While as a culture we tend to not blame children for insensitivity, our transgressions when young do not disappear once acted out. They lie dormant and fester and it is cold comfort as an adult to shrug off memories of misdemeanors that will not let us be simply because we know our parents or friends would have forgiven us. We don't enter the world as hu

Diagnosed Mortal #13 This Blogcast examines what it is to want to be an adult and what it really takes to leave off childish things to...