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Editor’s note: This is one in a series of stories about women gardeners in the Rogue Valley. “Working in the garden ... gives me a profound feeling of inner peace. Nothing here is in a hurry. There is no rush toward accomplishment, no blo...

In January 2009, I visited the Ashland Tidings office to pick up an extra paper and to thank them for publishing my letter to the editor as a guest commentary on Christmas Eve 2008. I floated the idea of an ongoing column on inner peace. To my del...

I bought a really cool T-shirt from an indoor skatepark once while visiting Austin, Texas. I loved it. The words together — Skater+mom — really described my identity as a mom with a young son who loved skateboarding. I did not hesitate to buy it, an...

Let yourself come to stillness and settle into a direct intuition or knowingness of primary oneness or beingness. The oneness more deeply implies only-ness, and that “everything else” is an appearance, modification, differentiation or expression of t...

I have been blessed to have been raised in a metaphysical tradition. My immediate family subscribed to what is known as a “new age-ancient wisdom” philosophy. Growing up, I learned many things that were so different from the teachings of my Judeo-Ch...

This column is a reprint from about 10 years ago. Now I’m even older, but it still works because I’m still here learning my lessons. Are we born only to die? And if so why? That was my waking thought on the morning of a recent birthday. “What a revo...

OK. We know enough about the problems we face, personally and globally, so let’s explore solutions. Einstein advised that we can’t solve our problems with the same thinking we used to create them. So how could we think differently about solutions? Ho...

In the metaphysical/spiritual world, the belief about abundance, money and prosperity is that it is our divine right or natural state to be prosperous. It is commonly said that the universe is abundance and therefore so are we. In the Christian tes...

When I turned 80 years old in January, it was a rise in stature to stand on this platform of perpetuity and a privilege that I had survived this far when so many I knew hadn’t. While there is the weight of a burgeoning past behind me, the future ap...

The visualization of me in my pearls will be my salve and salvation. This is my pledge to myself. I am releasing these photos from their pretty frames. From my oh-so-pretty dreams — strands of Mikimoto pearls and diamonds wrapped about me as delibera...