I never expected to top off a celebratory birthday dinner with a visit to the Emergency Room (E.R.), a visit I had avoided for almost five years. But when I...

I am borrowing the title of this blog from one of my favorite children’s books, Mama Do You Love Me? written by Barbara M. Joosse and Barbara Lavallee (since...

I always wondered why so many religions celebrated a festival of light around this time of year. Then I met Sun Bear, moved west and was introduced to the ti...

One of my dear teachers, a Cherokee Bird Clan mother, taught me this vision seed. And it is such an important one. Before I start to elaborate, I refer you t...

Sun Bear loved feast days, and, through him and my time with the Bear Tribe, I learned to love them too. He was born just before the stock market crash that...

Last month I was excited to share with all of you the launch of my brand new online store, which allows you to purchase Journey with the Medicine Wheel, the ...

Remember the last vision seed that I posted: Everyone is born with a vision to guide his or her life. Our mission is to find and follow it. And the bottom li...

Greetings Dear Friends! I am a keeper of the legacy of knowledge shared with me by Sun Bear, Evelyn Eaton and the other incredible teachers and elders I have...

Everyone is born with a vision to guide his or her life. Our mission is to find and follow it. What do I mean by vision? Eyesight? A beautiful light that il...

Only a strong heart knows the power of surrender. Guilt, now surrender. I sure know how to pick out really big topics to put into short blogs! Obviously I ca...

If your philosophy can’t grow corn, you need a new philosophy! I learned this from Sun Bear, my teacher, co-author and spiritual partner. He would phrase it ...

Beauty is all around us. Each day before you go to sleep think about what you experienced that was beautiful. I learned this philosophy from Twylah Nitsch, W...

Over the next few months, my blog will take on a new direction. Here I am going to share eleven (a master number) maxims based upon what I have learned in my...

I greatly admire Meredith Little and the work she has done to introduce the Vision Quest to modern people. She and her late husband Steven Foster provide a p...

“I have been privileged in my life to take (what Joseph Campbell calls) a true ‘hero(ine)’s journey’. I have been allowed to step out of the culture into whi...

Have you ever wondered how to explain the medicine wheel to someone who has never heard of it? Or maybe you’ve never heard of it until you came to this websi...

Shortly after Sun Bear had his vision of the medicine wheel, we decided to build a physical representation of this vision. We were living on Vision Mountain,...

Thomas, Kyla and I were fortunate enough to be invited to France in May because Dancing With The Wheel had just been published in that country for the first ...

About a month back Claire Jozan-Meisel who is sponsoring my workshops in France this spring asked me to write a short piece describing what a clan mother is ...

I always wondered why so many religions celebrated a festival of light around this time of year. Then I met Sun Bear, moved west and was introduced to the ti...