Basement 1: the part of a building that is wholly or partly below ground level 2: the ground floor facade or interior in Renaissance architecture 3: the lowest or fundamental part of something specifically...

​My grandmother says “Come with me.” She takes me to her bulging china cabinet and pull out an item. “See this small chalice? This is very, very old. It was my grandmother’s. It’s all I have of her....

There are places we all have in our worlds, both inner and outer. They are places full of dust – the realm of spiders. Boxes and items pile upon one another here. Oddly, this is the place we choose to...

The womb is the center of gravity. Don’t believe me? Take a finger and put it 1-2 inches below your belly button. (Men, you too.) Now, take another finger and place it on the top of your sacrum, that...

​There is a “way in” to every person. As an Alexander Technique teacher, I understand this phrase intimately. People often walk into my studio for the first time feeling tense, nervous about being there,...

I vividly recall bouncing on my grandmother’s small lap as she sang “Five foot two, eyes of blue” into my ear. She loved that song – my grandfather courted her with in back in the early 1920s. There...

This is the pond where I learned to skate as a child. The pond in the story was far bigger than this one! RLM I sat on the cold log lacing my skates. I could feel the icy breeze blowing in from the pond...

Writing on a Theme of Resistance, March 2024 Introduction ​by Robbin Marcus ​ > “It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.” > ― Leonardo da Vinci “Come, child, come…” whispered the wind...

Twenty-one stories ago I decided I wanted to look at the idea of gentleness as it related to processing my knee surgery. I gave my theme the name Slow Forward. Since then, Slow Forward as an idea unto...

If I want to center and ground myself, I need to get outside. I need my feet on the earth and to slowly settle into the natural world. I’ve known this about myself for a long time, but it really came...