I missed the last one for OlderBoy’s birthday after I’d planned around it (unsuccessfully planned as it turned out). Today’s could be up to 3 hours long. I didn’t miss any sleep from daylight saving change, I just slept in, but 3 hours sounds long even for creating the story arc. The other meetings have […]

by its cover they say (though trust me sometimes you can). I believe you can judge a book by its page trim. My book geek rule #1: If a book has a ruffled page edge it is a fantastic book! The words do not matter. Once they’ve been put on on pages that are uneven […]

Posts here and on other blog sites plus disgruntled Facebook posts make it clear some of us have had it with winter! Snowfall has been I’m fairly sure near normal, but it has come so spread out it seems as if all it ever does is snow. Daffodil leaves shot up through the snow weeks […]

The About page tells a bit about us, but knowing us will in time make clear Why the above graphics are Us.

 There are some struggles that I never seem to overcome. I fall into the trap of trying to puzzle out the reasoning for why someone acts a certain way even though I know 1) It’s none of my business and 2) It’s none of my business. I can only know my own motivations and never really […]

 Because of the fallout from the Oscars and MacFarlane and the Onion and this happening to me on one of my threads on Facebook (by a woman. who I don’t know.) I decided it should show up again. So here it is, the post on gaslighting. A Message To Women From A Man: You Are […]

It’s interesting how various faiths sort it out and how people are drawn to one or another. I’m not good at hierarchal groups. Part of that is at times I still have trouble squashing the auto-rebel that lives in me. Part is that the organizations I have been in that are hierarchal tend to do […]

 Nettles to Nirvana: A Personal Practice Bootcamp – April 12-14, 2013 Many advocates of having a personal practice will smile serenely and say a practice will give you balance, personal peace, and enough Zen to cover your house. Yay for Zen wallpaper! We will tell you that having an effective personal practice means reaching to […]

Save the date: April 12-13-14, 2013 for a Spring spiritual intensive to jump start your personal practice!    Many advocates of having a personal practice will smile serenely and tell you this means you will have balance, personal peace, and enough zen to cover your house. Yay for zen wallpaper!   We will tell you […]

Boiling down years of work of trying this and this into a weekend of useful effective tools and techniques requires a lot of thinking. Pulling out "things that worked for me" from the "things that usually work for all" is an exercise in self-reflection. Amoret and I have good solid plan and are filling in […]