We live between root and sky.
We belong to the earth that holds us and the vastness that calls us home.
In between are the stories of our lives, rooted yet forever reaching.
You already know the life you’re leading doesn’t fit.
Not in a dramatic, walk-away-from-everything way. In a quieter way. The way a coat you once loved starts pulling at the shoulders. The way you catch yourself standing at the kitchen window, mid-task, looking at nothing in particular, and the pause lasts longer than it used to.
You've tried the prescriptions. The retreats that promised clarity by checkout. The self-help shelves, the podcasts, the five steps to reinvention. You did the work. Some of it even helped. But the deepest thing — the thing that keeps surfacing in the shower, on the drive, at the edge of sleep — won't fit inside anyone else's framework.
It's not a problem to solve. It's a story to tell. Yours. The one you've been living in fragments — the loss that reshaped you, the leaving that saved you, the becoming that has no name yet because you haven't written it down.
You don't need a guru. You need a page, a pen, and permission to tell the truth about your own life.
This is where I write from. This is where I invite you in.
We live between root and sky.
We belong to the earth that holds us and the vastness that calls us home.
In between are the stories of our lives,
rooted yet forever reaching.
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We belong to the earth that holds us and the vastness that calls us home. In between are the stories of our lives, rooted yet forever reaching. 〰️
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Essays on transition, belonging, place, and the life between root and sky. Reflections from the Algarve coast. Carrying our losses as carefully as our loves.
I write about thresholds.
The space between who we were and who we are becoming. The quiet reckoning that arrives when the life you built stops fitting, and something in you — before the mind even names it — begins to turn toward what is next.
I live on the Algarve coast of southern Portugal, on the edge of Europe, where the Atlantic meets limestone and the light does things to the afternoon I am still trying to find words for. I came here because I had spent a lifetime building something that looked right from the outside. And one day I realized I was living inside someone else's idea of me.
The writing comes from here. From the cliffs, the winter ocean, the foreignness of becoming someone new in a country that did not know me before. Every essay, every poem, every reflection begins in this landscape and in the interior one it keeps reshaping.
ABOUT MY WORK
First and foremost, I am a storyteller, writing from the edge of the Atlantic on belonging, reinvention, and the life you did not plan.
From childhood I was either listening to my parent’s stories or creating them. I read voraciously and from the age of ten kept a journal where I recorded all the things I couldn’t understand and hoped to one day understand.
I am the author of four books, including the award-winning memoir The Shaman's Wife: A Mystical Journey of Surrender and Self-Discovery and the poetry collection Between Root and Sky: Poems on Love, Loss and Longing. I publish a free newsletter on Substack called Between Root and Sky, with essays, poems, and audio readings. (You’ll want to subscribe!)
I host one annual writing retreat, Unwritten Journeys, in the Algarve, and offer a seasonal letter-writing exchange called The Correspondence.
I mentor (aspiring) writers to develop a positive mindset, discover their voice, and gain clarity on their work. On occasion I offer or participate in local events and online.
CLIENT LOVE
SOMETIMES LIFE IS BUSY.
As a creative being, it’s challenging to carve out time for writing and living at the same time.
Truth time.
The busier you are, the more important it is to take that time if you want become the writer you know you can be.