slow mornings, simple joys

About the Book: Everyone knows how all those fairy tales go. The princess gets beautiful, nabs her prince, falls instantly in love, lives happily ever after and leaves her evil stepsisters in the dust. But what happens when you’re the ugly stepsister and your obnoxiously perfect—read pretty, smart, and, worst of all, sickeningly nice—stepsister is…

Method is an environmentally-conscious cleaning product company that I am sure many of you have heard of. Method has launched a new line of limited-edition bottles made from a blend of recovered ocean plastic and post-consumer recycled plastic. Is  that no totally cool? It is a new two-in-one hand and dish soap which will be available exclusively at Whole Foods…

Do you ever think about incontinence? I know that at my age I shouldn’t but I do on occasion have what my brother calls leaky pipes. I can’t help it and he loves to make it happen. If I sneeze a little hard or laugh too hard then I have to run to the bathroom. The problem…

This month’s Gabby Moms review spoke to me more than any of the past. Being a mom is hard and being a centered and sane mom is even harder. Not to mention learning to be grateful, it is not that I don’t want to be but life sometimes gets you down and you forget. Lorrie tells us that…

You know how it is, sometimes you get lucky and have an item or two that you just can’t imagine how you lived with them before. That is what happened with us and Fusionbrands. We received two items that have completely changed how we do a lot of things and I am loving it. Fusionbrands distills the function of…

About the Book: Memoirs of a Broken Girl: Happiness Beyond details – through an eclectic collection of poetry – the angst of growing up as an uncertain and shy young woman, and the hope that can develop within despite all the trials and tribulations of life. Memoirs has quite a few dark poems, many of…

It wasn’t until after I had finished writing my first novel, ‘A Darker Moon’, that I realized the importance to my writing of location. In relation to the fiction and poetry I create, I once would have described landscape as simply a thing to move through in pursuit of a story or poem. I would never have thought of describing myself…