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Grab my bookie in time for your New Years Soiree here. Hello creators of wonder and magic! I love this time of year—it’s a time for envisioning what is possible. I…
Social media can be a joyful and wonderful place to share connections. But, if you’ve still got a pulse, there are days when it’s a smorgasbord of posts ready to…
A couple weeks ago I stumbled into a beautiful coat on social media. It was one of those advertisements on Instagram that seems to know exactly what you are longing for.…
Have you ever made a decision that felt AS CLEAR AS DAY and then you awoke the next morning and self-doubt crept in. A critical voice saying, “You really screwed…
I was going through a wee dark night of the soul this weekend. My grief was coming out sideways and wreaking havok on some of my relationships (My mom died…
Image from my 100 days project of original art you can follow on Instagram) “Buffalo increase the fertility of the land by the circuitous and ever-changing paths they take across…
Having as Virginia Woolf wrote, “A room of one’s own..” is so important to the creative and healing process for me. The first space I claimed was around 2007. It…
(photo above: My mom + me going through her favorite letters and photos in September 2020) You know when you go to a self improvement workshop and they ask you…
Dear Creators of WONDER and MAGIC- It’s been two weeks since my mom died and there have been lots of lows and many ecstatic highs. I’m being gentle with myself…
Dear Creators of Wonder and MAGIC, If you are new here- welcome! I hope you find things here that help you find your FEELGOOD and follow it. I believe it will…
“It starts by forgetting about perfect. We don’t have time for perfect.” -Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear Dear Creators of Wonder and MAGIC, If you are new here-…
Back in 2008, sitting behind my microscope in the hospital and hunting for disease all day, I felt miserable more days than not. I couldn’t put a finger on what was…
On my bedside table, these days, I keep only Rumi and Hafiz…mystical Sufi poets whose words always bringing me closer to spirit and my higher self. And lord I need…
Prayer for the Dying Travel lightly. Take only the blessings. There will still be singing. Everyone leaves things undone. All of it is forgiven. Your body knows what to do,…
This weekend I treated myself to an online writing course with Anne Lamott. She is my Beyonce. I was reminded by her dog snoring on her lap and her radical…
“Daily Pages are SPOT ON! I am eight days in, and every single day, Alice has doled out her lighthearted, somewhat salty, unique wisdom with spot on accuracy. Sarah’s thoughts…
(new photos for my updated site coming soon! Thanks Wolfskull!) Thank you SO MUCH for your reviews at Amazon and Goodreads! Your words can help another reader decide to check the…
(my office garden!) Dear creators of WONDER and MAGIC- Last summer I happened to wander to the front of my office building and noticed my garden was a beautiful explosion…
Above: From my new book- An intro from Alice! Thank you for making the book a #1 release in shamanism, 12 Step Recovery, Spiritual Self-Help and Angels + Guides at…
Hello dear creators of WONDER and MAGIC- It is our stories that teach us. My friend Shannon’s daughter is in the photo above holding a baby quail. Their family is…
Hello!! I teach people how to connect directly with the divine using the tool of shamanic journeying. This is a form of deep meditation. I use a specialized drum beat…
(Pug hugs are plentiful in the Pandemic- My son Charlie and Oliver James during our beach walk last week) Dear Creators of WONDER and MAGIC, If you are new to…
(a gift from me to you when you pre-order my new book and upload your receipt.) Hallooooo dear creators of WONDER and MAGIC, I thought I would try a new format…
(CLICK ON IMAGE above to witness the THRILL of seeing a creation come into being!) Hallooooo dear creators of WONDER and MAGIC from us, Sarah and Alice the Elephant!! We…
Hello dear creators of MAGIC and WONDER- Despite my successful elimination of most alcohol and sugar from my diet over the past 2 years, old cravings have surged like a…
An eagle flew so closely over my car windshield that I reflexively ducked as I drove towards our local animal shelter with my kids in the backseat. The eagle’s brief visit felt…
(my drum painted by Emily Christenson) Hello dear creators of MAGIC and WONDER- I knew, as soon as I left the hospital for my sabbatical from medicine in 2010, that…
Sir Isaac Newton left Cambridge College in 1665 because it closed in the wake of the Bubonic plague. He took to the English countryside and lived on a farm for…
Greetings dear creators of WONDER and MAGIC! Five years ago I grew out my gray hair for 5 months and then chickened out (went back to dying it!) after receiving…
Greetings Creators of WONDER and magic! Even Cornonavirus couldn’t stop us from getting to Thailand and enjoying the hell out of our time with the elephants! Gosh it was pure…
