Publications
& Experience

Personal Essays

  • “Desert Docent” in Los Angeles Review

  • “Finding Space for Yoga in Motherhood” in Yoga International

  • “Mothering and Metaphor” in Spirit on the Move: Personal Essays on Yoga in Daily Life (Himalayan Institute Press, 2005)

  • “Personal Effects” in VoiceCatcher

  • “Postpartum” in Creative Nonfiction. Download the pdf.  "Postpartum" also appeared in Rage and Reconciliation: Inspiring a Healthcare Revolution (Southern Methodist University Press, 2005)

  • “Slide” in Brevity

  • “Survivability: What the Desert Teaches Me” in What Wildness is This: Women Write About the Southwest (University of Texas, 2007) 

  • “Reckoning with Birth” in Mothering

Teaching Experience

  • Canyon Ranch Resort & Health Spa, Tucson, AZ

  • Center for Schools and Communities, Philadelphia, PA

  • Cochise College, 

  • Golden Eagle Distributers, Tucson, AZ

  • Multnomah Arts Center, Portland, OR

  • Pima Community College, Tucson, AZ

  • Prescott College, Prescott, AZ

  • School’s Out Washington Bridge Conference, Seattle, WA

  • Sitka Center for Art & Ecology, Otis, OR

  • Southwestern Friends of Jung, Tucson, AZ

  • The Society of Southwestern Authors, Tucson, AZ

  • The Yoga Connection, Tucson, AZ

  • Ventana Vista Elementary School, Tucson, AZ

  • University of Arizona Extended University, Tucson, AZ

  • University of Arizona Writing Skills Improvement Project,Tucson, AZ

  • University of Phoenix, Tucson, AZ

  • Women’s Writing Groups, Tucson, AZ and Portland, OR

  • Wordstock, Portland, OR

  • School’s Out Washington Bridge Conference, Seattle, WA

Coaching and Editing Experience