Summer Reading

A few days ago I received a message about a book I could review for a listserv that I moderate. When I went to Amazon to order it, I couldn’t resist ordering a couple of other things on my list - free shipping, you know. Yesterday they arrived, four new books. Whoa! [...]

Green drinks and balance…

Are you sick of this topic yet? It’s like my new religion. So, here’s what has happened. A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the supposed bloating effects of mixing fruits and vegetables. Feeling quite paunchy in the middle, I decided to stop the green drinks and see if that [...]

Keeping it Simple

Today someone asked me: What is one thing you could start doing today that would most improve the quality of your life? My answer was to simplify, to get rid of clutter on all levels. By clutter, I don’t mean the junk that piles up in the closets and corners. I mean everything that gets [...]

Un poema

Yo soy
Soy del sol y de la sombra
Soy de la valle y del cañon
Soy del cielo y de la tierra
De las piedras y del mar.
Soy de la risa y del llanto
De hablar y de callar
Soy de arriba y de abajo
Soy del exito y de fallar.
Soy del dolor de mi querido padre
del corazón de mi cariñosa [...]

Praying

The last time I went to Mexico, I bought a rosary in a little shop on the corner across from the Basilica de Nuestra Señora de la Salúd, in Patzcuaro, Michoacan. I am not Catholic, but for some reason, the idea of owning prayer beads has always appealed to me. I think it [...]

Quote for the day

Love - If you have it, you don’t need to have anything else, and if you don’t have it, it doesn’t matter what else you have.
~ Sir James M. Barrie

The generation of comments

I have been blogging for a few months this year, and did so for a while last year. I still consider myself a rookie blogger, but I’m getting into it. A sort of difficult thing for me is determining what a blog is about for myself. My version, that is. I [...]