Alicia M Rodriguez
Alicia M. Rodriguez is a Latina writer and published author who has lived in six countries and traveled extensively. She is gifted with the sensitivity to explore culture, spirituality, storytelling, and magic themes attributed to her Colombian roots and love of Latin American literature. She writes Nothing Is Ordinary on Substack. Alicia lives in the Algarve of Portugal, where her morning cliff walks with her dog Sophie contribute to her creativity and happiness.#consciousliving #slowliving #nothingisordinary #thecontemporarymystic
Join Us for a Conversation at The Threshold: April 22
The Threshold Book & Poetry Circle Series The Threshold is a year-round invitation to pause, listen, and stay with the questions that arise during seasons of change. Through books, poetry, and intimate gatherings—both online and in person—we explore what it means to live honestly inside transition, without rushing toward answers or forcing resolution. This is not a program or a course. It is a living conversation—one you can step into when it feels right, and return to over time. Hello...
Join Us for a Conversation at The Threshold: April 22
The Threshold Book & Poetry Circle Series The Threshold is a year-round invitation to pause, listen, and stay with the questions that arise during seasons of change. Through books, poetry, and intimate gatherings—both online and in person—we explore what it means to live honestly inside transition, without rushing toward answers or forcing resolution. This is not a program or a course. It is a living conversation—one you can step into when it feels right, and return to over time. Hello...
The Story Beneath The Story
Hello Reader, "There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you" ~ Maya Angelou There is a particular kind of weight that comes from carrying an untold story. It doesn't announce itself. It shows up in the way you go quiet when certain subjects come near. In the half-sentences you've typed and deleted. In the journal entry that begins I've been thinking about writing... and stops there, trailing off into the ordinary demands of a Tuesday. I know that weight. I've carried it...
When did we stop writing letters?
Hello Reader, Something I've been sitting with for a while: most of us are navigating the most significant crossroads of our lives with almost no one to talk to about it. Not really. We have colleagues who need us to be decisive. Partners who need us to be okay. Therapists who hold the clinical frame. Feeds full of people performing certainty they don't feel. What we don't have, most of us, is someone who will be honest with us. Who will write back with something that actually meets the...
The moment life begins asking different questions
Hello Reader, Crossings There are moments in life when something inside us knows the old story is ending. Not dramatically.Not always with a visible crisis. Sometimes it begins as a quiet restlessness. A sense that the life you’ve built no longer quite fits.A whisper that there is more truth waiting to be lived.A realization that success without meaning feels hollow. These moments are thresholds. They are tender spaces—between who we were and who we are becoming. And yet, they are also places...
Join Us for Conversations at The Threshold: March 25
The Threshold Book & Poetry Circle Series The Threshold is a year-round invitation to pause, listen, and stay with the questions that arise during seasons of change. Through books, poetry, and intimate gatherings—both online and in person—we explore what it means to live honestly inside transition, without rushing toward answers or forcing resolution. This is not a program or a course. It is a living conversation—one you can step into when it feels right, and return to over time. Hello...
The Body Knows Before the Mind Does
Hello Reader, What the Cliffs Know That Your Calendar Doesn't There is a particular kind of exhaustion that doesn't show up on a blood panel. It lives in the space between what you're doing and why you're doing it. You keep moving, keep producing, keep showing up—and somewhere underneath all of that competence, something has gone quiet. Most of us don't stop until we have to. What if stopping were the strategy rather than the concession? READ THE FULL POST HERE Today's Threshold Question What...
Rewriting the Gender Narrative: Thoughts on International Women's Day
Hello Reader, This Sunday, March 8 is International Women's Day. Fifteen years ago I wrote an article that reframed gender equality. This week, I revisited that article and even fifteen years later, I noticed - sadly - that not a lot has changed. So I wrote a new article. If you identify as a woman, or a man who cares about women's rights, I encourage you to take a few minutes and read Rewriting the Gender Narrative on Medium. It begins: On this International Women’s Day, March 8, 2026, I...
Is It Spring Yet? On Thresholds, Storms, and Becoming
Hello Reader, Is it spring yet? I write this on a day when the sun is finally shining in the Algarve after months of rain, darkness and destructive winds. Yet, in the USA on the east coast they are dealing with white out conditions from a fierce storm. What is the saying? "March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb." It's intriguing to me that both conditions can exist at the same time in different places. I'm thinking of this as a metaphor. Can I experience sadness and grief and yet...
Join us for Conversations at The Threshold Feb. 25
The Threshold Book & Poetry Circle Series The Threshold is a year-round invitation to pause, listen, and stay with the questions that arise during seasons of change. Through books, poetry, and intimate gatherings—both online and in person—we explore what it means to live honestly inside transition, without rushing toward answers or forcing resolution. This is not a program or a course. It is a living conversation—one you can step into when it feels right, and return to over time. Hello...