Music I’ve Mentioned

Love Your Inner Slacker

Every time I start to feel guilty about say, not washing my hair, not shaving my legs, not cleaning the bathrooms, not dusting…oh hell, the list could go on for days…I remember the first of the three Rs is reduce. As in, reduce your use. Sure, I may be kind of grubby (not ‘dreadlocked hippie’ [...]

Mother Nature Says…

Clean up your room!
Happy Earth Day everyone. As you may be aware, around here every day is Earth Day. Nevertheless, in honor of today, I bring you…
My List of Items I Wish Everyone Would Quit Using

Bottled water–You knew that, right? Get the skinny on bottle re-use here. I saw an ad for a re-usable bottle the other [...]

Overcoming Fear*

*Please note, this post is NOT for the squeamish. I’m not kidding. You might want to skip this one. I won’t hold it against you.
Cockroaches make my skin crawl. I risk weeks of nightmares if I even think too much about reading Kafka’s The Metamorphosis. I hate roaches. Hate them. Hate them. Hate them. For [...]

Count Your Blessings

Today’s are…
1) Daffodils

2) Yarn on the bobbin (my first handspun merino)

3) A rare, rainy day in the high desert

and
4) One more day with Wolfgang

God Made Dirt…

and dirt don’t hurt. A middle-school friend of mine voiced that little ditty as he was invoking the ‘5-second rule’ for a piece of candy his little brother had dropped in their front yard.
As most of you are painfully aware, I am not in the running for mother of the year for anything, but especially [...]