Raw chocolate decadence

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...

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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...

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Altars of love

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...

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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...

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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...

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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:...

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Icebergs

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...

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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...

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