Burning Man is now a household name but the older, more fascinating, Rainbow Gatherings are still obscure. Every summer since 1972 thousands of people co-create a temporary city deep in the wilderness of our national forests. This isn’t a music festival, people are there to practice anarchy and hippy spirituality. Read more…
2020 marks thirty years since Redwood Summer, a series of direct actions to protect the Redwood trees of Northern California, the creatures that lived in the habitat, and and the people that make their living on the north coast and in the Sierra Nevadas. I participated in a few of Read more…
If you guessed Karin Zirk, then you are correct! If you are not familiar, with Plume: a writer’s companion, then you are missing out. They provide support and encouragement for writers with a focus on womyn. Each month subscribers receive a gift box with self-care, encouragement, and inspiration for writers. Read more…
A number of books have been written about the Rainbow Gathering either directly or indirectly. The most recent (yes even newer than my book, Falling From The Moon) is The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia. Not sure I’m fond of the title because Read more…
Join bird lovers, ocean water enthusiasts, climate change activists, scientists, and many more as we celebrate the salt marshes at the northern end of San Diego’s Mission Bay Park. Join the Friends of Rose Creek as we lead Bird Watching Bingo groups along the Rose Creek Salt Marsh for fun Read more…
Last weekend, I attended the Pacifica Graduate Institute Alumni Association (PGIAA) annual reunion at the amazing Ladera Lane Campus, which if you did not know is an old Jesuit monastery in the hills of Montecito/Santa Barbara/Caprinteria in California. The grounds are filled with old growth oak trees, altars to deities Read more…
I completed my doctorate at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Mythological Studies and Depth Psychology while working full time and caring for a disabled parent who required 24-hour assistance. Needless to say it was hard and I was tired. My dissertation looked at how using mythic stories and journal writing enhanced Read more…
Falling From the Moon is the most authentic counterculture novel since Edward Abbey’s The Monkey Wrench Gang and Ernest Callenbach’s Ecotopia. Her story of two women with different quests colliding at a counterculture gathering explores today’s alternative values in a setting that has never before been written about in such Read more…
A search for a lost parent; a journey through a world that is close to many of us but seen by few; a bonding of women through the difficult circumstances of life. All of it moving along to the beat of a thousand drums offered up into the night sky. Read more…