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...

Diagnosed Mortal #12 This post explores the different ways the light plays upon a human being when undeniable experiences strike without...

Art credit: Gregg Segal and his art project 7 Days of Garbage Diagnosed Mortal #11 This post is about owning choices, making reparations...

Diagnosed Mortal #10 This post is about the consequence of not talking about difficult things. In truth, talking about things not usually...

Diagnosed Mortal #9 Death and catastrophe; portals into exploring how one might attempt to become the best human being possible. My...

Diagnosed Mortal #8 This essay explores using the word lost when referring to a person who had died and just what that turn of phrase...

Diagnosed Mortal #7 This post is about how we avoid darkness and what that aversion and prejudice costs us in terms of our dying with...

"The radiance falls on all of us." ~Lidia Yuknavitch Diagnosed Mortal #6 I am one week into dead girl walking and I'm getting people...

Diagnosed Mortal #5 On this day, I wax poetic regarding what turned out to be a salad days redux for me at 40 years old. Who doesn't have...

Diagnosed Mortal #4 Regarding money...I laugh at this now but it took me an entire lifetime to get to the joke...and that was after many...

Shouldn't you be doing something for me right now? Diagnosed Mortal #3 How peculiar to be human beings and find ourselves in relationship...

Diagnosed Mortal #2 This post is concerned with stuff. ..What is to be done with it after we die? Millions of people are confronting...

Diagnosed Mortal #1 Years ago, before I even settled down seriously to write my memoir, I thought I would give myself a writing...

Picture: Macro-photography of a plant cell The process of preparing to live the life that we want to live is the real preparation for...

microphoto of an onion cell by Sirichan Angkapichit In the end it is all about the love. Being a human being is a process within cycles....

Picture: Macro-photography of a crystal by Dr. Robert Berdan Many of us love a mystery though perhaps not so much surprises. We are...

Picture: Macro-photography of a moth wing What do we do with our feelings when a loved one dies? What about a person who has brought us...

micro-photograph of a rat neuron One of the more contentious and upsetting aspects of these teachings for many people is the tenet that...