by Rebecca Cavender | divine feminine, healing, intuition, love, relationships, self-love |
Dear Nice Girl: You know who you are. You’re the one who doesn’t raise your voice in argument. You raise your hopes that understanding will prevail. You’re the one who helps the elderly couple struggling to carry their luggage. You’re the one who tidies the...
by Rebecca Cavender | healing, intuition |
I recently heard from an old flame. He wasn’t really a boyfriend, but we were involved for a period of time many years ago. We had a good friendship. He’d call daily, usually waking me up in the morning; he lived on the other side of the country, but...
by Rebecca Cavender | divine feminine, love, relationships |
I met a woman – a stranger – at the swimming pool yesterday. There was only one other person in the pool besides me and she asked both of us, “Is it OK if I dive in the pool? I know we’re not really supposed to, but sometimes … you just...
by Rebecca Cavender | divorcing, healing, illness, relationships |
One of the unexpected questions that creep up when you’re suddenly single is: Who will take care of you when your bones go brittle and the wrinkles get deep? Who will take care of you if you become terminally ill or have an accident of some sort that changes you and...
by Rebecca Cavender | a woman alone, denise levertov, divorcing, healing, writing |
I love words and rhythm, so it’s probably not much of a surprise that I fall swiftly into the arms of poetry, read, and swoon. On Becky in Burma, I used to post some of my work, but after learning some literary magazines consider that publication (and many...
