There is a huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.  The search for power below the ocean has costs millions, maybe billions of lives, dollars, energy for naught.  It really is sad and I cannot bear to see the destruction it may cause in coming days and months…. years even. Up near Cape Cod [...]

It’s a big deal to my 7 year old that he gets to ride the bus now that we live further away from his school. I try to hang back while the kids wait for the bus, so that, in my husband’s words, I don’t seem like “one of those Moms”. But today my son [...]

As I seemingly mull through an endless chain of setbacks recently, I wonder what it is I am doing to somehow bring them on. I am a student of positive thinking and the law of attraction; therefore I keep thinking that whatever this is, it is merely a temporary and necessary stepping stone to the [...]

The complex where I just moved to is so big, I keep having to ask my neighbors where things are. These brief conversations all seem to have a pattern: “Can you tell me where the dumpster is?” “Sure. It’s in the corner of the lot in back of building 17”. “Do you know where the [...]

I applied for funding to educate myself on a project I am working on with friends called “the Passion into Cash Project”.  Below is a copy of the application I sent to Kickstarter, which is a website that merges backers with people with ideas.    I have been working with some friends on this for [...]

My 7 year old gets it. It makes perfect sense to me, too. Yesterday (Easter Sunday) he says to me “I think Santa Claus must’ve told the Easter Bunny I like Star Wars Lego’s”. Well of course he did! They are in cahoots, you know (in a good way, of course)! Santa works the whole [...]