The Vegetabletarians are Coming!

July 26, 2010

Beloved Son will arrive any day now for a few weeks stay and he will bring along one? ten? eight? friends all at once, or a few at a time . . . all gracing the land with their radiant young energy and  ready to pitch in on some projects. And not just my projects, [...]

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Courage, Authenticity, and Money

July 25, 2010

It’s no secret to the four or five people who read this blog that I’ve been conflicted about writing it. But the act of writing is not the cause of the conflict. It’s my finances. I’m divorced. Twice. Both times amicably as far as these things go. I’ve also been “married” most of my life. [...]

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Do you really want to blog?

July 18, 2010

It’s been over a year since I started writing a blog this so it’s a good time for me to evaluate how this is working for me. A blog can be personal or professional and I write between how each works, it appears. The professional ones seem contrived to promote sales. The personal ones seem [...]

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A Life’s Defining Moment . . .

June 24, 2010

One morning in 1954 I was too sick to go to school. It was early September. School had started only a few days before and in my family you only missed school if you were at Death’s Door. It turns out, that’s where I was. The doctor came to the house midday and that evening [...]

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Virtue

June 6, 2010

I believe I have a virtue. At least one. It’s name is PATIENCE . . . at least I thought I had it. But today, after 4 hours of wrangling with my printer to get it to take new, refillable, non-Epson-brand cartridges and it still won’t print the black despite every software and physical solution [...]

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Coasti.es and Urban Assault Ride

June 1, 2010

Just in case you thought I haven’t been posting because I’ve been hanging out at the tavern too much, think again. I work every day on my own business and put out some non-related video as well. Two weeks ago I went to Seattle with my “big” camera (I have 2 smaller ones) and shot [...]

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Knitting in June? You Betcha!

May 26, 2010

I used to own a knitting school (actually I was the knitting school) from about 1985 until 1992 or 93. I had a small child, an empty Victorian house next door because my dear father-in-law had died, and an obsession with playing with the BOND knitting frame. I wanted it to stand on its ear [...]

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Mothers, teach your daughters how to be safe

May 23, 2010

I know my last post was disturbing. It was difficult to write. But you have to disturb the earth in order to plant new seeds. My life is blessed and beautiful. It’s also privileged. I’m a white, middle-class, 62-year-old female citizen of the United States in the early 21st century. Ugliness seldom appears in my [...]

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Mothers, don’t let your daughters grow up to be date-raped

May 14, 2010

In the 1966/67 school year at the University of Michigan I watched a young woman disintegrate. She started in September as a healthy nursing student . . . cheerful, bright, laughing with us. Then suddenly she was a grey skeleton. She didn’t finish the school year. Her decline was fast and horrifying to watch. I still [...]

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Happy Mother’s Peace Day

May 9, 2010

This is a copy of the email I sent to my family and friends on Mothers Day,  May 13, 2006. Thought I’d share it here today. December, 2005, son and mother (He must be standing on a stump. How else could he be so much taller than I? He’s only 23 and I’m 58.) Dear [...]

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