Donald Trump has decided that the IRS is auditing his taxes because he is a Christian. It is (at least in his mind) a clear case of Big-Government Christian-Bashing. Now, I am not a public Prosecutor, but (so far) I haven’t heard enough evidence to convict him of the Christian charge. And I am a …
My beloved husband, whose (for want of a better descriptor) woo-woo tolerance is considerably lower than mine, has hung in with me valiantly. Of course, he is living with six and a half chakra panels in the room where we do yoga, so he can’t get away from it entirely. My 87-year-old father, who is …
Lately, I’ve been noticing scraps. Small scraps. Tiny left-overs. Crumbs, really. I think this is happening in part because my fiber art pieces tend to be small (at least by comparison with, say, a quilt). It is beyond rare for me to use more than half a yard of fabric at any given time. In …
I remember the month, although not the specific day or hour, when I crossed one of my personal Rubicons. On one side of that border, I could refer to humanity as ‘mankind’ and on the other, I couldn’t. On one side I was perfectly willing to accept the semantic practice of referring to groups of …
I love seeing the bumper sticker, ‘Practice Random Acts of Kindness.’ (Among other things, it beats most of the alternatives on the bumpers of pick-up trucks and SUVs here in Colorado.) I love the idea of random acts of kindness. But the fact is, 99.44% of them are not random at all. A week ago, …
Yes, I have a story for this week — if I had the time to edit it properly. Yes, I can produce a guided meditation for the fifth energy node — with an hour to devote to it. However, my truth is that it is Wednesday and I am still working on the fiber panel …
Dick grew up as an only child of an older couple. His parents were not bad people, but neither of them knew a thing about raising children. They both came from abusive families and never intended to have a child, both fearful about the possibility of repeating their own childhood. Once they found had a …