For the past 50 years, I’ve been dedicated to excavating and exploring the truth in writing, whether it be in my own journals, while leading writing students in a sacred circle, or in the pages of my non-fiction books—on topics ranging from healing sexual abuse to...
The Statue of Liberty is in crisis and she seeks help from Eckhart Tolle.Ann is an award-winning writer and performer. Her current solo show, Inappropriate in All the Right Ways, has been described by The Huffington Post as “a show like no other.” Her show, Loveland,...
When the pandemic began in 2020, I took to the tub. Not only as a refuge, but as a creative play space. I don’t know about you, but I often get my best ideas in the tub. Because of the pandemic, my gigs performing in theaters stopped immediately and I needed a new...
Every story, whether it be a novel, a movie or a TV series, begins with an inciting incident—the unanticipated event that forces the protagonist out of their familiar, normal world into a series of ever more difficult challenges that ultimately leads them into the...
As a wildlife tracker, I honed observation skills to detect slight disturbances in natural settings. Many of these tracks and signs are easily missed as they blend into a background of what often appears, to an untrained eye, an entangled pattern of twigs, leaves,...
PAID RECORDED PROGRAM Revisiting Iron John: A Six Part Online Exploration of Mythic Masculinity for Today In 1990, Robert Bly’s book Iron John: A Book About Men ignited a generation of men towards what would become known as the mythopoetic men’s movement. What...
In trying to perfect his own craft, Claude Stein found a new career. It was 1980. After years of studying classical music, Stein found himself playing the South Florida club scene, singing country and folk songs, “that pool-side tiki bar stuff,” in local bars. He...
We all have different ways of dealing, or not dealing. I don’t watch any news, too graphic. I limit my listening to the car, and one news cycle. It took me years to realize the news has its own Top 40. The second cycle is a little refresher, the third, just a top off…...
Dr. Kathy Bullock is an educator, scholar, singer, accompanist, arranger and choral conductor who specializes in gospel music, spirituals and classical works by composers from the African diaspora. Kathy earned a Ph.D. and M.A. in Music Theory from Washington...
I first met Jane Hirshfield about fifteen years ago, after one of her readings in San Francisco. She reads her poems with intensity, but not loudly. Her voice is even, quiet. I was struck by the many tonalities of her silences. Still, there is a distinctly...
