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Do You Believe In God, Mama?

January 4, 2010

Rio: Mama, do you believe in God?
Me: What god are you talking about? I believe in lots of gods?
Rio: No, not like that. Like, God. I believe in God.
Me: What do you believe about God?
Rio: [my friend down the street] asked me if I believe in God, and I said yes. She said it was [...]

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Well, hello there 2010

January 1, 2010

A lot of people have written extensively about how happy they are to bid good-bye to 2009. For me, it’s been a pretty good year. I’m not sorry to see it go, but only because I’m looking forward to carrying all that joy with me into 2010.
2009 was a year that saw the continuation of [...]

Tagged as: family, holiday, money, new year's resolutions, relationships, sex, witchcraft, writing

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Birthday Rum Spiced with 21 Hot Peppers

November 17, 2009

Bridget’s dad had a birthday party over the weekend. I helped him celebrate by drinking rum spiced with 21 hot peppers. That was even better than I thought it would be, and I thought it was worth walking across town for.
Dead simple recipe:

Grow little hot red peppers all summer.
Watch them ripen.
Harvest them.
put them in a [...]

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Gratitude Project

August 2, 2009

Every year between Lammas (August 1) and the Fall Equinox (September 22), I celebrate the Gratitude Project with an ever-changing group of friends and family. It’s simple: I aim to post, or write in my private journal, something I’m grateful for every day. Want to play along? Comment here and let me know where you’ll [...]

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Those pesky house fairies

July 25, 2009

*crash*
I come into the room to find Rio sitting on the floor, crying and clutching her bum. It’s pretty clear that she just fell off a piano stool and hit her tailbone, but she’s too upset to talk about it yet, so I just hold her. Eventually, Serena toddles in to see what’s going on, [...]

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Summer Solstice Festival at the Growing Center

June 19, 2009

Tomorrow, I will be leading a Summer Solstice Festival at the Somerville Growing Center, starting at 4 p.m. We’ll be doing sun-painting again if the weather is good.
Here’s the skinny on the overall project:
A series of family-friendly festivals celebrating the turning of the wheel of the year. Through song, story, art and play we will [...]

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Growing in the Garden: crystal-powered garlic

April 8, 2009

crystal-powered garlic, originally uploaded by MzMuze.
I planted some garlic bulbs last fall, and used this crystal to mark where I’d put them so I wouldn’t accidentally dig them up come spring.
No fear of that; they were the first thing to sprout in our garden after the snow melted. I have half a dozen, and they [...]

Tagged as: food, garden, witchcraft

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Where do we go when we die?

March 28, 2009

Today at dinner, Rio wanted to know where we go when we die. She’s very interested in death lately. I keep telling myself, and all the other adults she’s freaking out with her questions about it, that this is a perfectly normal developmental stage for a kid her age (four going on thirty).
We had a [...]

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Owning her authority

June 4, 2008

Rio had a very spirited day, by which I mean challenging, unhappy and somewhat violent. I take full responsibility for this: we’ve been going out all day almost every day since her birthday a week ago, and for the past day or two its been obvious she needed a break. Even to her; she’s been [...]

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Cooperation Celebration

May 27, 2008

Rio has a plan for a community ritual. She just came in from playing in a thundershower and explained it to me thusly:
It will be a Cooperation Celebration. All the people will stand in a circle around the labyrinth, and dance and sing the cooperation song. Then we will put our stuff in a cooperation [...]

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