I get it. I do. I understand that my ideas for parenting seem “different” than what other people think. Ultimately, I truly don’t care what anyone else “thinks”. At the end of the day, they are my kids during my custodial time, and I am graced to be the one who...
It’s been two years now since I sat in my apartment when it was new to me and my custody of the children was a whopping 30% even though the children were living only 10 minutes away the other 70% of the time with their Dad. As one can imagine, it was a...
While attending the Celebration of Life for Mr. Musser, my Mom ran into the former, possibly current owners of the original and mainstay gelato store of Los Gatos, Dolce Spazio. Dolce, as we refered to it, has been in Los Gatos since the 1980’s. It’s...
Not only is it Spring time, the traditional time for the expression of fertility through birth of baby animals of all kinds, but with the Full Moon pulling on those pregnant Mamas…it’s also time for some baby birthing action! I am beside excited to let...
At the insistence of those close to me and persistence of their requests, I am now making available to you my Mama Monologue from the Writing Mamas group when I spoke at the Corte Madera, CA Book Passage in November of 2010. It’s a great story of the depths...
…da da dum de dum dum (Eminem’s Lose Yourself) Summer can mean so many things in our heart. I believe we can all close our eyes and recall a warm summer day, maybe hot with some teenage pop song that lays the emotionality and beat as the back drop for...
Several months after having moved into my new apartment in Tiburon, I had returned from a trip to Ikea, another venture in furnishing my new lovely home. I sat washing the recently purchased kitchen items. I felt a warmth of happiness resound through me as...
It wasn’t my idea. I have to give credit to a friend in my women’s circle, Tami. She was sharing one evening that when things got all blocked up with traffic and she and the her children were stuck in the car, their solution was to pull out bubbles and blow them...
