I have spent my life pursuing my reason for being. From the military to money management to holistic health and kids, I have explored my heart, my choices, and the path my soul has asked me to travel.
My writing incoporates many of these things while integrating reality and the stumbling blocks we all face in our quest for the ultimate destination, love. I am in love with love. With all the heartache, joy, wonder and misery love brings to our lives, not one moment, breath, tear, or memory is wasted. It is our reason for being, and our greatest challenge.
“No matter! Her blood is white!” Red Jacket seethed. He went to the fire and tried to kick the dirt to douse, it, a signal that the council was over. Jones grabbed him and pulled him... More > back.
“But the blood she has shed in bearing her children is Seneca. The blood of her husband when wounded in battle is Seneca. This deed is not given by the Seneca. It is the white nation who owns rights to this land now. They are giving back to a Seneca by giving it to Mrs. Jemison. For this, Red Jacket, you should be glad. As a Seneca, a great chief who will long be remembered for your words, you should be pleased that one of your people will retain rights to this land. She will stay with her people, the Seneca. Her houses will remain standing. Her fields will continue to bear corn…”
The true story of Mary Jemison< Less
She wanted to hold her and protect her and race through her past to make all the pain go away. She wanted to feel her and soothe her and make her know someone loved her and would never hurt her. ... More > But she couldn’t move. Her intensity and her fear that this would be the one woman who would reject her made her freeze, unable to speak. She was afraid to move, afraid to reach out, afraid that if she touched Jacked she would crumble into dust, and afraid that if Jackie touched her she’d turn into stone. She could barely watch Jackie’s eyes, because she wanted so much to be reflected in them, and she couldn’t watch Jackie’s hands, because she wanted them around her and she ached to fill them with treasures and memories and rainbows and anything else Mike could find that was beautiful and pure and good. If there was a God, Mike was sure he had sent Jackie into her life and that she was special and needed special love.< Less
"Oh she walks in boots of leather, and slippers made of gold. She'll be a child forever,and forever she'll be old.She's the heroine of legends, she's the eagle and the dove. She's the daughter... More > of the moon,she's my sister and my love.< Less
Souls Of The Fire
When I was asked to review this title, I wasn't sure if it was a "witch" story or some occult novel, neith
er of which would ever appeal to me. What I found instead was... More > a poignant, inspirational story of people just like all of us, but told in a way that made me think, and made me cry. The "souls" in this book are women, different ages, different backgrounds and beliefs, but all sharing the common ground of parenting. Baba is a spiritual woman with a Native American upbringing, a "two spirit" who has raised Julia from birth while struggling to get the birth mother to find her connection to her daughter. Through the interactions of the women in the circle, she comes to terms with her choices, choices that are in the best interest of all involved.
Readers will marvel at the ease that politics, psychology, philosophy and spirituality are woven into a unique story that not only needs to be told, but should be mainstream in the way a difficult decision is handled with unconditional love.< Less
The Cree Indians believe only two relationships are possible in our lives, to be a friend, or to be an enemy. One comes from love, the other from fear, both opposing and opposite energies that can... More > send us into chaos, cause our destruction, and eventually help us to heal. The earth has two poles with opposing polarities, and we are of the earth. All things in life have both positive and negative electro-magnetic pulses. Our quest, as humans, is to strive first for balance, then for the blending of these opposites, and finally for the creation of only one magnificent ray of light that can raise us above our humanness, to the divine love our souls were born to find.< Less
A quick guide for teachers, administrators, parents and others to help children of any age deal with the emotional and physical consequences of tragedy.
The Cree Indians believe only two relationships are possible in our lives, to be a friend, or to be an enemy. One comes from love, the other from fear, both opposing and opposite energies that can... More > send us into chaos, cause our destruction, and eventually help us to heal. The earth has two poles with opposing polarities, and we are of the earth. All things in life have both positive and negative electro-magnetic pulses. Our quest, as humans, is to strive first for balance, then for the blending of these opposites, and finally for the creation of only one magnificent ray of light that can raise us above our humanness to the divine love our souls were born to find.
ILYR is a love story that touches every soul.< Less
Two Spirit is a name given to women, and also men, in Native America who are considered born with two spirits- male and female. In America, butches are those women, those heroes of the feminist... More > movement, of women everywhere who look for the strength and heart of a two spirt woman.< Less
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