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PHASED OUT Four years ago I was all about being fully caffeinated. Started a blog and an e-mail address and went big with it. It was pe...

WATER BOY Been trying to get Rojo into a body of water for almost fourteen years. This summer he decided to be Water Boy. We've been...

SUMMIT The five of us (four humans and Flicka) climbed to the top of this today, Black Butte. Truth be told we drove halfway up, and cli...

WHY DO I DOUBT? I had a check to deposit and Rojo likes to use the ATM, so off we went. He punches in my PIN. He punches in  a series ...

YOU   ARE WHAT YOU EAT?? Rojo looked at the weather forecast on the Weather Channel (something he does several times a day) and declared...

And I saw the river over which every soul must pass to reach the kingdom of heaven and the name of that river was suffering: - and I saw t...

PERSONAL When I began memoir writing four years ago, I had one thing holding me back: how do we write about those we know and/or love, ...

NO SHOW So, I went to the reunion, and Someone I Once Knew was not there. This reunion is for the school where I used to teach before W...

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. Tenzin Gyatso 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet

Dear Someone I Once Knew, I will see you tomorrow at the reunion, and I will remember how we were pregnant with our daughters at the exa...

LOST Dreamt last night I was in a road race (in a Honda Element) with the most unlikely co-pilot (someone I can loosely define as a frien...

TOP 10 BOOKS ON MY SUMMER READING LIST

UNBIND Under every moment of anger is an enormity of sadness,  and under that  a sea of compassion.     - Stephen Levine The Greek word...

FORGIVENESS First  AbFab Geek  recommended I read it, then my friend Toeless sent me the book, so I finally sat down one day and starte...

GRANDSONS My dad died just a few weeks before Rojo was born, and nine years before Kunga came along, and yet there it no denying his rol...

MANIC SCREAMING We should make all spiritual talk Simple today: God is trying to sell you something, But you don't want to buy. Th...

THE MAGIC BENCH Wrote recently about  playground miracles . Am almost embarrassed to tell you this, but they just keep happening, and...

FOR GOOD "I've heard it said That people come into our lives for a reason Bringing something we must learn And we are led To...

WELL, THEY GOT THE FIRST PART RIGHT ANYWAY... Got an e-mail from a friend with a special needs child. They'd had an incredible conver...

SLIP An interview with author Tanya Savko I'm pleased to share a wonderful book with you, Slip, by my blog and real-life friend, Ta...

HELP Went to see "Sex and the City II" last night with three HOT friends. Same group of us went to SATC I two years ago, same g...

PERSPECTIVE We were away for the long weekend - actually, STM left last Monday and had four well-deserved days to himself, and the kids a...

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.   ~Joseph Campbell * Photo from www.covenanteyes.c...

THE BEST MEDICINE We know our friends as our friends, we may know them as spouses, even siblings and children, but to me, the greatest gif...

AVERAGE One of my friends has the greatest quote, "Everyone wants to be normal, but nobody wants to be average." Isn't tha...

PLAYGROUND MIRACLES Tonight Rojo wanted to go to the playground, and I heard myself agreeing without a grumble -  something just went off ...

STRENGTH Hadn't been to my beginner's yoga class in thirteen days. Was really feeling the lapse - what had been effortless just ...

ABOVE AND BEYOND So Rojo has been obsessed (is there a stronger word than obsessed?) with the ice cream truck for many, many, many, grey-...

WHY AM I HERE? Had to spend a whole day at home earlier this week. STM was expecting an important package to be delivered, and it require...

JUST A FEW OF THE THINGS I DID BEFORE NOON: Wrapped six presents for STM's birthday tomorrow Loaded, ran, unloaded the dishwasher ...

NEVER SUBTLE Had a big important meeting Friday morning at my house. Did a little morning meditation to get my energy right, asked for ...

HONOR SYSTEM There's a local chain of discount stores in the northwest called Bi-Mart, where for $5.00 you can buy yourself a famil...

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear but around in awareness. - James Thurber Jess at  A Diary of a Mom  wrote today about ...

LINING UP Somewhere around the third park of the day I began to settle into it: this is my life. Thought it would be one thing and it is...

Happy Mother's Day to all of you. You are mothers, you are children of mothers. You've been well mothered, you've been badly ...