Month: November 2013

“When we listen with less judgment, we always develop better relationships with each other. It’s not differences that divide us. It’s our judgments about each other that do. Curiosity and good listening bring us back together.” ~ Margaret Wheatley, Turning To One Another This quote perfectly describes the ideal scenario for talking with our family, … Read more

I can only think of one thing worse than pimples/acne for a young person entering puberty…warts! At a time when self-consciousness is at an all-time high, who wants to be worried about those bumpy, hideous things on fingers, arms, legs, and toes? Warts are those things that belong on the end of a witch’s nose … Read more

  “A sacred illness is one that educates us and alters us from the inside out, provides experiences and therefore knowledge that we could not possibly achieve in any other way.” ~ Deena Metzger WARNING: Before Reading If you are: a sleep-deprived mother/woman (some fathers/men too), or have been nursing (as in Florence Nightingale the … Read more

What’s your favorite soup? The book would have us believe that it is chicken soup, which is good, but the favorite in this household is mushroom, hands down. And the mushroom soup is my own recipe—not from the can. Being a 21st century grandma, making mushroom soup from scratch is my own little form of … Read more

They said, “If you teazle A sneezle Or wheezle, A measle May easily grow. But humour or pleazle The wheezle Or sneezle, The measle Will certainly go.” ~ A. Milne, “Sneezles” from The Complete Poems of Winnie-the-Pooh And apparently in Southern Alberta, a small number of measles cases (14 diagnosed) turns into public panic. Although … Read more