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A New Book Wish List

Last year I posted a book wish list, just for fun. An online friend recently mentioned that her son’s holiday wish list was divided into two sections, books and not-books, and that reminded me to look back at my list. I’d posted it in early December, forgotten about it, and was pleasantly surprised when my […]

Thanksgiving Week Plans

How did it get to be Thanksgiving week already?! I’ve been enjoying a rather quiet and introspective month, by choice, but I’m also glad for the arrival of the holiday season. I thought I’d share some of our plans and projects for this week. I just posted this blog’s address on a new Unschooling group […]

Tips for Creative Entrepreneurial Types

Over the past couple of days I’ve come across two great articles that appeal to my creative side. The first one I found through a link on one of the blogs I read regularly, Blog of the Zombie Princess. She’s been talking about doing “Morning Pages,” and shared a link to an article written by […]

The Art of Interior Design

In the past, I never really paid much attention to interior design. When I was younger, all my furniture came as hand-me-downs from family members. After I had kids, although we did paint and decorate a bit when we built this house, we had to deal with childproofing and messes and spills and tons of […]

Intuitive Dream Healing

I’ve been working with my dreams over the past several months. I’m keeping a dream journal and noticing how my intuition provides answers, cloaked in dream images, to the questions and challenges in my life. It’s a rewarding process. It helps me to go deeper into areas where I need to learn new tools and […]

Iron Pentacle, The Simpsons, and a Kiss From Michael Franti

Hello, loyal readers! I assume you’re loyal, since you’re still here even though I haven’t written for a while. October was insanely busy. I had said “yes” to a whole bunch of (admittedly fun) social events, we still had lots of soccer games, our car situation remained…interesting, and by the end of the month, I […]