What gift should I bring? What life must I live? Do not waste one moment of your wild and precious fate.

Last week, while teaching a writing workshop, I began with a bold assertion. “All writing is a relationship …

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Many years ago I was captivated by the second-century Roman tale of Amor and Psyche, unique in the western tradition …

The phrase “I do” conjures an image of two people making the most important and durable commitment of their lives. But what don’t they say?

Two principles guide my writing. The first is respect for my audience…

Pursuing a doctoral degree is an odyssey of the mind, heart, and soul, noetic and imaginal, but unlike Odysseus…

Writing is difficult, serious, grinding work. Don’t let anyone tell you differently…

Longing for home is a soul condition. For writers, writing is a way of seeking home and one day, perhaps, finding home…

When figures from the imagination show up, it is one of the great moments in the creative process, a close encounter of the soul kind…

At first the solitary lioness was just a beautiful animal of the Timbavati. Then I saw the visible wounds on her back and flanks…