The devastating hacking of my computer became a gift in a way. But first, a little background.
Bio
Ellen Heath lives and writes in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her career in communications has included experience as a congressional aide, corporate speechwriter, government relations and public affairs specialist, and freelance writer. She is the author of Lizard Diary, a memoir of an experience with shamanism, and The Inheritance, a novel that was published in 2012. She has a B.A. degree in English from Stanford University
Topics
Why Are You Here?
What? What do you mean, why am I here? To make a good life, of course.
The Countdown to Three
It began with this sense of waiting, of expectancy. And then I tuned into the significance of the number three.
Planet Earth as a Living Organism
Is it possible for a human awakening to travel the Earth with the same speed as a pandemic?
A New Perspective on COVID-19
I’m back. I’ve just been thinking for two months about how to write through this pandemic without stirring up more fear or anger. And then I got help–from the voice of a shaman.
Dominion Revisited
We need more bugs.
Milk’s Great Moment
“I’m not going to drink something that came out of a cow’s pants!”
The Dominion of the Microbe
What is required, overall, is a new paradigm in the way people think about disease.
Laurie Garrett, author of The Coming Plague
Another Epidemic Rises
This second epidemic is not of disease, like COVID-19, but of despair–within a certain demographic of American men.
A “Crip Camp” Rises Again
In a crippled moment, the disabled lead.