I’m Still A Beginner But You Know What Else I Am Now? A Playwright.
When Plan-B Theatre announced its Creative Aging Playwriting Workshop last December, I applied immediately. I’ve loved theatre and storytelling all my life, and it was great to see …
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Aquarium Age: July 1-7, 2022
Welcome to the American Revolution 2.0. It is not, as some have suggested, the Civil War 2.0, despite the stultifying polarization that has insinuated itself into almost every face …
Culture
Being Filipino Enough
A couple of years ago, something happened that threw me off. No, it wasn’t the global pandemic — though COVID did affect me and my work in unexpected ways. I wrote my first f …
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Metaphors for the Month: May 2022
Osho Zen Tarot: Stress, Sorrow, Participation Medicine Cards: Spider, Otter, Horse Mayan Oracle: Imix, Kan, Cauac Ancient Egyptian Tarot: Hierophant, Queen of Cup …
Astrology
Aquarium Age: May 1-7, 2022
The intensity of daily life is simply overwhelming, making it increasingly hard to find shelter from the storm—because there are simply too many storms occurring at once to make an …
Community
Urban Almanac: May 2022
A compilation of daily discoveries, wisdom, and resources for creative living for May 2022
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Metaphors for the Month: April 2022
Osho Zen Tarot: Letting Go, Exhaustion, Sharing Medicine Cards: Crow, Ant Mayan Oracle: Dreamer and Dreamed, Language of Light, Hologram Ancient Egyptian Tarot …
Astrology
Aquarium Age: April 2022
Emotional waters run deep this month—there’s no bottom to the intensity of feelings, yours or others’, so it’s wise to think before you leap, speak, or take any action purely based …
Urban Almanac: April 2022
A compilation of daily discoveries, wisdom, and resources for creative living for April 2022
Culture
“AFTERSHOCK” is anything but cute
I have been attending LDS Singles wards for twenty-four years. Once, while discussing my single status with my sister, we joked about me sitting at a corner across from the LDS Con …
Astrology
Aquarium Age: March 2022
March plays out on a split screen, but the dual reality I’m talking about isn’t referring to the proverb about the month’s weather—March comes in like a lion but it’s not likely to …
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A Conversation with Poet and Philosopher Mark Nepo
“What is our personal practice of return? How do we come back to what is central, to what is real, to what is sacred, when the ups and downs of life knock us away from it? We all h …
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Metaphors for the Month: February 2022
Osho Zen Tarot: Success, Ordinariness, The Master Medicine Cards: Mouse, Lizard, Coyote Mayan Oracle: Ix, Unity, Eb Ancient Egyptian Tarot: Ten of Wands, Ten of Cups, Five of Cups …
Lifestyle
Coming to Grips with Winter
Most folks have a love/hate relationship with winter here in the valley. For me it has been hate/hate/hate/strongly dislike/disdain/tolerate/resign to; trending towards acceptance. …
Culture
Speaking Candidly, On Writing The Clean-Up Project
THE CLEAN-UP PROJECT began as a journal entry in response to the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. I told Jerry Rapier at Plan-B Theatre that I was trying to make sense o …
