She waited. I arrived in time to say goodbye. A fraction of the dog I left two and a half weeks ago for our family vacation barely lifted her head to greet me when I finally got home. The cancer has consumed her in what feels like record time. Margo, the iguana and chicken chasing, sassy walking, happy hopping, mama loving babygirl lies next to me in my closet, one of her favorite spots in the house. Even in pain, she is graceful and quiet, braving her fate. All there is to d

The terns have returned to St. Thomas. Their soft white bow shaped bodies cut through hydrangea blue skies, flit over the point's obsidian rocks, dash above the waving palms. In the seasonal switch, the birds mark a shift along with the temperatures. The winds still whip, scratching white caps onto the wavy indigo seas. The sun rises at 5:30 am and sets over Inner Brass around 7pm. These brilliant days of sunshine and cotton ball clouds, sometimes laden with Saharan dust, str

"Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart." -William Wordsworth A few months ago I hosted a vision board making evening. Three friends and I tore through magazines, cut out words and images with any scissors I could find around the house, choreographed what went where on each of our 18"x20" spaces and, once committed, glue-sticked our hearts' desires onto our poster boards. Soft background music met the slicing and dicing of glossy pages, chit chat crescendoed and fa

As the Spring Equinox has just passed, it's finally starting to feel like 2026. The fire horse has left 2025 in the dust. New plot lines, goals and seedlings are ready to break from of the dark soil. The surf swell wanes, temperatures subtly climb, familiar flowers bloom. Rainbows dot the sky at all times of the day, a joyful reminder of the both/and as we witness the psychedelic dance of rain and sunshine. It's as if a sticky sleep has finally lifted, a film's been removed a

The sea has been tinged with an unfamiliar opaqueness, making the aqua water seem denser, heavier. Like when using a mineral sunscreen and finding yourself coated in a white film, the ocean's palette of blues holds a different weight, more aquamarine than sapphire. It's a trickledown effect from northern storms, cold fronts stir the ocean with swells and disturb the sediment, while also bringing delicious cooler weather. In this fleeting season when the temperature can hov