I am a chimera. In the tissue of my body lives the ancestral DNA I was born with. Forty percent Indigenous Andean, 40 percent European,...

Last month I moved to Puerto Rico, fulfilling a commitment I made nearly a year ago, to collaborate with friends who had returned to the...

For the first five years of my daughter's life, I told her a story every night. Cuddled in bed, I would invent new story after new story,...

When my daughter was three, a small mass appeared in my right breast. I spoke to my daughter as gently as I could ...

Every new moon reminds me that whole worlds exist before we can see them. This truth deeply guides my work. My new moon practice began a...

In May, when we first learned of the Supreme Court's impending ruling on Roe v. Wade, our team at Birth Center Equity* talked together...

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...