The Wheel Turned
We made it a year. A whole year in Flagstaff. A year ago today, I left behind the only life I ever knew. My home for 33 years. My friends, my job, my troupe, my dance career. We packed up everything in...
View ArticleWounded Warriors & False Prophets
**WARNING** contains explicit language! I have been holding off writing this post for sometime because I know it will probably piss some people off. I am writing this after I read an article of a man...
View ArticleBreaking The Silent Darkness
As most of you know, I am very open about my anxiety and depression. I don’t feel a need to hide the fact that I am on medication nor that I have days when the darkness is so thick I feel like I am...
View ArticleLet’s Get P.C. on MENTAL ILLNESS!
When is society going to start getting politically correct when it comes to mental illness? When are words like “crazy,” “nutter,” “looney ” going to become just as offensive and disgusting to use as...
View ArticleThe Dark Side of the Light Keepers
Living with depression is not easy. I mean, no chronic illness is easy to live with; but depression doesn’t always show “physical” symptoms. So when you tell someone you have an illness, they are...
View ArticleBeating Back the Demon
I used to say I was tired, when I was actually really sad. Or I would say I was busy, because I couldn’t bring myself to tell someone hanging out or going somewhere didn’t make me feel comfortable. And...
View ArticleConceptual Failure
I recently read an article online that stated marriages in the 21st century have been set up for failure. This is mostly because of the cost of living, distractions from technology and the lack of...
View ArticleInto 2016
2015 was a year of MANY major changes in my life. For starters-moving across the country! We were planning on moving- but not as quickly as we did. But, everything fell into place at the right time and...
View ArticleThere is NO Truth
I have been having to filter out a lot of my news feeds on social network sites due the continued intolerance and bigotry of the “Islamaphobes.” The idea of not allowing a group a people into a...
View ArticleUnplug, Unwind & Be Grateful
After the November 13th terrorist attack on Paris, I was on empathic overload. I woke up the next morning feeling nervous, nauseous and out of sorts. I knew that it was my empathic ability tapping into...
View ArticleYear of the Dog
Another year has gone by. For those who do not know, I always consider my birthday my new year; I had my new year on Sunday. Every year I make list of “resolutions” to accomplish in the next year. This...
View ArticleToxic Traditions
I am far from a traditionalist. In fact, I am the first person to walk away from “traditions.” Besides my eclectic personality which makes it almost impossible to fit into any traditions, one thing...
View ArticleGrieving Identity
For 10 years I was someone else. My stage presence and personality was who I was; what defined me. I was the Belly Dancer, Snake Charmer, the Artistic Director…..I was a personality. It was all I knew....
View ArticleWhen A Good Witch Goes Bad
I have been a practicing Neo-Pagan Witch/Shaman for 20 years. I started practicing when I was 13 and have never stopped. There is something very connecting to a spiritual belief that encompasses the...
View ArticleThe Blank Slate
I don’t like the saying “where ever you go there you are” — and I have said that before. It infers that if you go somewhere to get away or start over–you will always have your old baggage. I can tell...
View ArticleGod Does Not Like Ugly
When I worked in hospice I remember clearly a case of patient who was elderly and had several children. All of the children, except one, were in agreement that the patient needed to be on hospice; she...
View ArticleA Dog-model Revolution
“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring–it was...
View ArticleLearning To Fly
I recently moved to Flagstaff, Arizona…and I don’t regret it a single bit. As an empath, I was struggling daily with living in the urban jungle. The big city, along with much polluted air, is full of...
View ArticleAwake
I recently attended a webinar by Dr. Steven Greer of the Disclosure and CSETI programs. One of the many amazing things he discussed was the idea of cosmic consciousness. It was a remarkable ideology...
View ArticleThe Measure of Wealth
Learned something special today after hiking into Lava River Cave. It was a challenge to say the least…but we did the walk and I felt a sense of accomplishment I hadn’t felt before was we finished. And...
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