(Note to reader – I wrote this at the end of March, just before Easter, but my fellow Mother Rising crew voted I post it and share even if Estara’s official season has past. Hope you enjoy!) There are so many layers of discovery that our lives hold. Everything from whom we meet or interact […]
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The Rainbow Ikea Connection
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 I allowed myself to soak in the goodness of the […]
Minivan to Magic Bubble Bus
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 out the window. […]
Chocolate Coated Tears
I had been sleeping for months on an inflatable mattress on the floor of a small room that had once been the office of my ex-grandfather in law. I had carved it out as my office in a desperate struggle to find something in the house that was mine. The room appeared to have been […]
Claustrophobic Freedom
It was covered in yellow vinyl siding suffocating the life and breath of it’s inner beauty. We rescued this 1940’s small two bedroom one bath family home both from the vinyl in the front and the ivy trying to crawl over it from the back in 1999 when it became ours. It was our first […]
