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• Spiritual Parenting

  September 3, 2009

  • I went to a Spiritual Parenting class last night and am happy to say that the one little tool I walked out of there with has already proven to be well worth the effort.The lesson came from a book written by Doc Childre, the title which escapes me. He apparently founded something called Heart Math which I had not heard about until last night. Here is what we did:We took sometime to visualize a ...
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• On Wondering What to Write a Book About and How to Go About the Writing

  September 2, 2009

  • Now the big question is: "What to write about?"I have always been somewhat of an "automatic writer" whether it was with poetry or a short story or scattered nuggets of memoir. I am not necessarily proud of this though it comes naturally and it is nice to have something I love that is sort of effortless. That being said - it wasn't until I was in a Short Story writing class a ...
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• bath tub blues

  September 1, 2009

  • We set alarms for the first time since we had children - who needs them with little kids! And, I was feeling so on top of it and organized when all of a sudden I hear screaming from the bath tub and the 5 and 7 year olds are each strangling the other. 6:47 am. Not my idea of early morning bliss balls.On to the second day of school. More will be revealed in the steady stream of hours that keep ...
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• breaking the silence

  August 31, 2009

  • Today is another one of those "first day(s) of the rest of my life" where I am hands down swearing to start writing and keep writing and see if maybe - just maybe - I've still got something. If not talent, then at least a little left over shiny bit of dream to one day BE a writer. Ugh. Soft heart. Tired mind. Having gone from delirious crush to Stepford Wife to ...
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