V-log videos with accompanying essays from 2020 — 3/15/2020 Cold, Flu, or COVID-19: Loneliness is the Worst Symptom When I was introduced to Medium two years ago I didn’t think it would be to write a blog. My arcane and incorrect…medium.com 3/23/2020 A Tiny Little V-Log to Cheer You Up Or, a video for view-you!medium.com 3/25/2020 V-logging :Gratitude: Great+Attitude Youuuuuu…u…u…u!!! Hellooooooo…o…o…o!!!medium.com

It’s not all doom and gloom near the end of life. — To deny Death is to deny Life. When the possibility of death is just around the corner, living takes on a loving urgency. I wrote this ten years ago today, then today I read it from my hospice care at home. It still holds true.

Who lives, who dies, who decides. Outside the window where I sit all day, It stands alone, arms spread wider than it’s height exoskeleton of branches unmoving. roots spread above ground in a circle around it. leafless but not lifeless. Sunlight glistens where bark has peeled, leaving jagged wounds that cannot be sealed, blustery storms rage dark clouds overhead, without a…

This is a short summary of my response to my current situation, accessing my fears of dying out of control of my mind and body, but no fear of death itself. Mrs. Kathleen Swehla: 2008 She passed away peacefully at the age of 100, surrounded by her family. She passed away…

What Did Buddha Say? No one saves us but ourselves. No one can, and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. We cannot travel the path until we have become the path itself. ~ Gautam Buddha

Halloween used to be my favorite holiday after I became a mom. But not the scary stuff…the cute stuff like homemade capes and Little Red Riding Hood costumes made from red velvet window drapes — a la Carol Burnett doing Scarlett Ohara in Gone With the Wind — for my…

How art and trauma recovery led me to Social Change activism I never knew language had died while I lay in my solitary room. This waking to the world in April beckons me back from my tomb. “Why do you write?” she asked. “What do you get out of it?”…