January's quiet can be deafening. We have descended from our holiday revelry and are faced with the blank slate of a new year. The cold...

I know exactly what my perfect day looks like. The only problem is that perfect rarely ever happens. If we dig a little deeper, maybe...

Here is something I have learned: if you want things to change, then they cannot stay the same. It sounds obvious, but with deeper...

It's June and the greens are stunning! I am fascinated by just how many varieties of green there actually are right now. The trees are...

It has been difficult for me to gather my thoughts over the past few weeks. Something heavy is pressing in on me. I find myself...

Khair turns thirteen this month. It seems impossible that the baby who used to fit inside the space of my waist is now a young man who...

Lately I have been spending a lot of time staring at a brick wall in my room. In fact, in this very moment I am up against the brick...

I would like to invite you to Lizard Church. Meet Nyene- she is a leopard spotted gecko given as a gift to my son, Khair. Like all...

When a woman turns forty she is rewarded with the pleasure of starting a wonderful ritual. Each year, on a very special day, she gets to...

Fall is flashing with color, and once again we find ourselves amidst a cascade of changes. What is most interesting to me is just how...

Last month we had a Blue Moon, High Tide, and Hurricane Henri all on the same night here in Red Hook, Brooklyn. It wasn't long before we...

I have been spending a lot of time in the garden. Maybe that means I am getting older. The bustle of Brooklyn's streets are somehow much...

Mark Edward Samulski was born April 19, 1976. He was my older brother who walked me into nursery school every day to make sure it was...

Before the pandemic I used to ride the subway- a lot. I love and hate the subway, which may one day be the title of my farewell letter...

I received an email from one of my students that is worth sharing. I feel fairly shy about compliments, but it illuminates a core...

I had an interesting conversation with my father. In total truthfulness, I have had a lifetime of interesting conversations with my...

When I was a little girl, one of my best friends was a tree. I used to climb up and sit and talk to her for hours. She was very alive...

In the last two hours of childbirth you enter a phase called "transition." If you ask most mothers who have delivered naturally I think...

The idea that we can truly separate ourselves from our environment or from each other is a false consciousness. The inevitability of...

Perspective may be one of our most powerful and underutilized tools. How we define our experiences has a lot to do with the way we are...