This life. I was on tv at age five.  I played Juliet twice.  I lived alone in a small cabin by the sea at age 16.  I’ve had my heart broken more times than I can count. I have been stalked twice and almost raped 3 times. I have never been married.  I have sung with...

  The Summer Day Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean-- the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my hand, who is moving her jaws back and forth instead...

What a year it has been.  This year I have lived out of a suitcase, been generously cared for by friends and community, been brought to my knees with fear and grief, and cultivated a kind of presence that I have longed for. When we own nothing, when we live nowhere,...