Living Lightly in the Body: Life with Chickens

Living Lightly in the Body: Life with Chickens

This year, 2019, marks my 10-year anniversary of having chickens in my animal family. I wanted to have chickens for many, many years…when I moved to the southwest, I finally lived in an area where I could have them. I began with a small flock of 4 bantam...
Life is Love: The St. Lawrence Estuary Beluga Whales

Life is Love: The St. Lawrence Estuary Beluga Whales

I am honored to be one of the writers whose work is included in Dark Matter, Women Witnessing Journal, Issue 8, April, 2019:  What Does it Mean, to Heal? Part III, edited by Lise Weil. Dark Matter publishes writing and artwork created in response to an age of massive...
How My Afghan Hounds and I Celebrate Spring

How My Afghan Hounds and I Celebrate Spring

It’s finally spring! My animal family and I are loving the warmer weather and longer days, and being able to spend more time outside in the yard together. Here in Santa Fe, my dogs and I enjoy our nightly ritual of sitting in the backyard and watching the...
Resources for Empaths and Highly Sensitive People

Resources for Empaths and Highly Sensitive People

As a teacher of interspecies communication, I find that many empathic and highly sensitive people are drawn to my classes and training programs, and we often talk about these characteristics and the particular ways they impact our lives in our class meetings and...
Teachings from the Atlantic Humpback Whales

Teachings from the Atlantic Humpback Whales

In late January, I had the great privilege and joy of returning to the Silver Bank, a protected sanctuary for wild marine mammals 90 miles offshore of the Dominican Republic. Each winter, thousands of Atlantic humpback whales make the migration to these waters to...