I visit my father most Sundays, in the nursing home where he's lived for several years. My father has Alzheimer's, but is in excellent...

Food culture consists of the relationships and experiences we engage through food—the way food shapes our experiences of the world ...

On my fingers I count, first on one hand, then on the other, all the young people I know, personally or through others, who have taken...

Next week marks two years since the first cases of COVID emerged in Michigan, where I live. As our deeply troubled world begins to open...

I’m tempted to believe in scarcity right now. That the way things are is the only way they can be. So I’m closing my eyes and remembering...

"Let me sing to you now, about how people turn into other things." Ever since my first book love when I was 18 I've chosen books ...

Wise people taught me that vision lives in our whole bodies, not just in our heads. When everything goes dark, we practice vision in our...

Our stories are sacred. Our stories are powerful. Our stories, like ourselves, are part of a longer arc that we have inherited and will...

What is cultural strategy? I was asked recently, by Nayantara Sen of Real Food Real Stories. After honoring the many brilliant people who...

In these past weeks I’ve searched my soul, again, for what is most important to do in the world.

A giant sunflower appeared in my garden, in space carved through grass and dirt long before I arrived.

"We were birthed out of what the community said that they wanted and that they needed. That's our roots and we will never stray from...

I looked up the word “animate” and discovered that it means, literally, “to bring to life.” I love that. And I love that I got to play...

I’m paying attention to coincidence right now, to synchronicity, to moments when two actions happen at precisely the same time. One of...

Practice may be the simplest and hardest part of creating the future. I was reminded of this recently, when two beloved collaborators...

Who will I invite to co-create with me in this purpose? How will this build community? How will this echo out to our children’s...

I call myself a story listener. I love to listen for a story's essence as it reveals itself in people’s words. I love to gather the...

We’ve never needed poetry more than we do now. A few years ago I wrote that poetry is about seeing, naming, and valuing “our tingles of...

In 2020 I lost my balance. Literally. In September, a neurologist in ER told me that I had vestibular neuritis, a severe but temporary...

2020 was a year that asked, “Who are you?” It was a year that asked who we are -- as people, parents, friends -- when everyday routines...