Last November, I received a Save-the-Date invitation to a Fabulous Women’s Weekend Retreat in West Palm Beach in February of this year. I blogged about the joy in receiving it here. Included in the invite was one of my favorite quotes by Marianne Williamson, which set the tone for the get-together: “Our deepest fear is […]
Returning Home…
…is always a good thing. I’ve experienced a lovely weekend away–surrounded by sixteen other beautiful, strong women who want to change the world (by changing themselves first). I’ll dish on all the details this week…by hosting a small mini-retreat for you, my lovely reader, right here, on my blog. Yep, this week you can lounge […]
Market Day Soup
Just a few words today. That pairing of photos makes me long for summer. Good produce is hard to come by where we are. All I can think of is: four more months until our Farmer’s Market starts. Or is it longer than that? This is Kiss My Spatula’s Market Day Soup. Complete with music […]
Posing Questions
Listening to Speaking of Faith’s podcast–“Exodus, Cargo of Hidden Stories”–the other night, I loved a particular segment on the issue of asking questions. Certainly, the Passover Seder encourages questions. Younger children ask about the roasted egg…the bitter herbs…the chopped apples and nuts–why are they there? As the children mature, they ask different…and harder questions. Here, […]
Music Introductions
The sheer joy that new music brings! Liliana said this morning, on the way to school (we were listening to the first song of Vivaldi’s Gloria), “Mom, this makes me so happy!” I had known about Jonathan Meiburg’s start in Okkervil River, but I hadn’t known about his side project, Shearwater. [Thanks, Kory!] Oh, I […]