Author Archives: ashley

driving home one afternoon after picking up my daughter zoe, she said to me “mama, promise not to tell anyone or say anything as i have something to tell you, and promise not to smile or say, oh thats cute zoe or say anything or laugh if i tell you” i assured her that i […]

Einstein once said: I have no special talents, I am only passionately curious. and Thomas Carlyle said: Worship is transcendent wonder. seems like these two should go together… for the moment, I’m just enjoying both quotes and thought I’d share them with you… want to work your magic and string them together for us? Thanks!

Lifetime Television is sponsoring a petition urging Congress to ban “drive-through” mastectomies ? the practice in which women are forced out of the hospital sometimes only hours after breast cancer surgery. The legislation would require insurance companies to cover a 48-hour minimum stay for mastectomy patients and a 24-hour stay for a woman undergoing a […]

Perusing the Integral Naked Forum, Arthur introduced me to an organization called Responsible Wealth. Arthur explains the organization as a bunch of rich Americans who believe that the Bush tax cuts are outrageous and obscene, and are advocating a fair system of taxation which can support the kind of society that allowed the rich to […]

photo source I so adore and appreciate the circle of ‘friends’ and ‘family’ that has formed around this easily amazed playground. It warms my heart unendingly to feel each of us touched by one another in the many ways that we have of reaching out and sharing our innner selves. Here’s a message from Becky: […]

one evening the children were playing nicely together, then zoe decided to play a movie. so jared decided he wanted to play one too. a dissagreement broke out. i try as much as possible to let them work it out between them, but this one was harder for them. zoe pushed jared out of the […]

Today’s Word of the Day (found through following this link or the permanant link over to the right in ‘playful links’): Sapid\SAP-id\, adjective:1. Having taste or flavor, especially having a strong pleasant flavor.2. Agreeable to the mind; to one’s liking. The flow of my days lately has been very sapid. What’s sapid in your life?