Category: Inspiring People

  • Glorious Messes

    Glorious Messes

    It’s been several weeks since I sent my manuscript in to my editor and in those weeks I’ve been doing some self-care with great results. I’m continuing to eat a plant-based whole food diet, which pleases my body and eases my mind. Yeah, I know. Weird that what you eat can affect your mental state,…

  • A Delicious Debut

    A Delicious Debut

    I recently chatted with Linda Anger about her fresh off the press debut collection of poetry and stories Sweeping the Floor at the Full Crumb Cafe. Some of these poems and stories of the women who pass through The Full Crumb Cafe have language so gripping, words and ideas so remarkable, that the reader can…

  • Rose Colored Glasses

    Rose Colored Glasses

    Heather Von St. James and I have both been accused of wearing rose-colored glasses. We are both optimists; others might call us fools. I think being fools might have saved our lives. Ten years ago, I got an unexpected and distressing diagnosis: Barrett’s Esophagus, a pre-cancer condition caused by stomach acid eating away the lining…