Raw chocolate decadence
This raw, chocolatey, frozen yummy treat is completely non-dairy, gluten-free and it's überdelicious. It took me less time to make it than to post this blog telling you...
Believe
I got so inspired by the altars I had created to inspire me that they worked! And I totally forgot about the extension cord! So after taking in all that beauty and...
Altars of love
I just totally inspired myself! I just realized with a shock that what inspired me just now was not some external event or person - that's what usually does inspire me...
Birthday
Today I called Daisy to wish her a Happy Birthday. It's March 18, and she's turning 80. This is a big one for her. I met Val and Daisy when I was a graduate student at...
A vast difference
Like many kids, I went to summer camp to learn to sail and ride a horse and tie a bowline. I whittled green boughs into perfect marshmallow-roasting sticks and stayed...
Every body needs milk
This is a tale of 2 sisters, 2 canoe paddles and 300 gallons of milk. The year: 1971. My age: seven. Hair: piano-colored. Eyes: grape. Teeth: 17. Album of the Year:...
Icebergs
Glaciers are things of ineffable beauty, in which the purest tones of lightpulse and shimmer, lovely and untainted as anything on earth or in the sky. -John Muir...
Cause for alarm
Is it wise to trust in the kindness of strangers? In the shadow of fabled Timbuktu lies the medieval town of Djenné, and every child’s fantasy: here the most colossal...