Wild Honey with Spirit the Black Leopard at the Jukani Wildlife Sanctuary in South Africa, 2014. Happy Spring to everyone in the Northern Hemisphere! I am celebrating this beautiful season and the publication of a new poem in Tiny Seed Journal. "Unplanned Paths" tells the story of my unlikely meeting with Spirit the black leopard at the Jukani Wildlife Sanctuary in South Africa in 2014 and explores the mysterious phenomenon of manifesting the things we focus on and the powe

A road sign in San Ignacio, Belize in Central America Happy February 2026, and Happy Lunar New Year of the Horse! I am posting this on Saint Brigid's Feast Day which is also Imbolc, the first day of spring in Ireland. January was quite busy for me as I enjoyed yet another travel adventure, this time to the lush jungles of Belize! I won't share as many photos of this trip as I have done for past journeys because my media storage capacity is getting low on here and I don't wan