The first thing I did after posting last was to look up the astrology of the sketches from September 2018 when, it turns out, I first declared myself an Artist and began a daily, ritualized creative practice that would eventually become Present Moment Living and Planning.
Venus in Scorpio part 1 Read More »
I didn’t think anyone was reading my blog, but I got a comment today asking “How do you plan to use your experience to help others going through similar struggles?” Such a good question, and timely, because after 8 years of documenting my life with the intention of sharing it to support women struggling
To Blog or not to Blog…. That is the Question Read More »
We’ve been watching old Rob Redford movies since his recent death. This is one we both remembered vaguely, and it lived up to our recollections of Redford handsomely displaying his low-key wit in what successfully passed as a “thriller” in 1991. We had forgotten this was also one of River Phoenix’ final movies before his
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Mrs. Henderson Presents, a comedy about the real widow Henderson who opened a nude theatre in WWII London, is a lost treasure from the Judy Dench files. It was released in 2005 and while it garnered 2 Emmy nominations, neither I nor My Friend Kate had heard of this innocently raunchy period comedy, which has
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I make a habit of losing myself in others. If there are no needy people around I will either make myself the needy one or lose myself in my dog. And I don’t mean in a good way. I will work so hard to understand and fulfill the needs of those around me that I
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About twenty years ago a homeschool acquaintance gave me some kefir grains. She said “Just put them in milk and the next day they’ll be kefir!” So I went home, put them in my non-organic 2% milk and spent the next few months drinking stinky cheese water. It was barely drinkable if you held your
Four years ago today I was recovering from a three-week solo van trek through the Southern California mountains during CoVid in wild fire season. I had intended to edit footage of that trip into a video series close upon my return and would have done so but for an MS flare-up, caused by a nervous
You don’t get Life without some kind of stink as a byproduct. Might as well fertilize a rose garden. Or, in keeping with environmental responsibilities, a mini-forest of drought tolerant trees.
Singing Over the Bones 2023 Read More »
If you are to shine like the Sun, you must first learn to be wholly yourself in the dark.
Accept, Release, Renew 2023 Read More »
