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Awake!

Today, I celebrate my daughter’s life as she graduates from middle school and prepares to enter high school. I am blown away to think that my Kaitlyn is already at […]

June 6, 2011 AKMPhoenix

Gentle Dawn

This morning, as I get ready to go on air, I’m basking in the quiet coolness of the beginning of this day. I stepped out on the porch for a […]

June 3, 2011 AKMPhoenix

Sharp Edges

Have you had the experience of waking while dreaming and the dream is one in which you are so terribly sad or scared or missing someone and, when you wake, […]

June 2, 2011 AKMPhoenix

Sharp Edges

Have you had the experience of waking while dreaming and the dream is one in which you are so terribly sad or scared or missing someone and, when you wake, […]

June 2, 2011 AKMPhoenix

Cycling

No, I’m not talking about motorcycles or bicycles. I’m talking about beginning-middle-ending cycles. For most of my life, I’ve had a difficult time being with the “middle” of what is […]

June 1, 2011 AKMPhoenix

Being Clear

At times I am surprised how a few simple words can open a whole can of worms and hurt. Things that people, I am sure, have NO idea about what […]

May 30, 2011 AKMPhoenix

It’s Raining. It’s Pouring…

Last night, Kaitlyn and I decided to play in the rain. At 11:30pm, we went bounding out the front door in our pajamas and splashed in the gutters, raced to […]

May 29, 2011 AKMPhoenix

Cycles

I used to think that life cycled in 7-year cycles. While I know this to be physiologically true, I also know that my life seems to cycle a lot more […]

May 28, 2011 AKMPhoenix

In the Silence

There is nothing more powerful than well-placed silence, I believe. I use that tool in my own life, as well as in sessions and, apparently, while I’m on air. Yesterday, […]

May 27, 2011 AKMPhoenix

Wind Tunnel

Where I live, I am in a neighborhood where the houses are very close together and the way our house is positioned, the space between our house and the neighbor’s […]

May 26, 2011 AKMPhoenix

Tick-Tock-Tweet

It is early in the morning and the world is still. All I hear is the tapping of these keys, the ticking of the tiny clock beside me and the […]

May 25, 2011 AKMPhoenix

The North 40

I drove to Idaho yesterday afternoon with my mother and daughter through mountains and over hills and in and out of rain storms to arrive at my sister’s home in […]

May 24, 2011 AKMPhoenix

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