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Perfect Moment Monday: Retreat

January 22, 2012

As part of a year-long course I’m immersed in, I had the pleasure of spending a weekend with a group of authentic and supportive women (12 of us plus a teacher) at a dude ranch called Peaceful Valley. We drove up between snowfalls and, because of the time of year, ended up being the only [...]

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Perfect Moment Monday: Happy happy joy joy

December 30, 2011

(ALI Alert: baby mentioned. Do not read if you are in a tender place.) One week ago… Sheri (my middle sister) and I are at a morning yoga class. She’s been living in Pennsylvania this year and it’s a real treat to spend time with just her, doing one of the things we really love [...]

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Perfect Moment Monday: Daddy + daughter + (good)drama

December 25, 2011

This month’s Perfect Moment Monday lands directly in the aftermath of Christmas. I hope it has been a fantastic one for you, filled with love and joy and peace and family (and with luck those things go together!). ==================================== Tessa is having a little difficulty with math facts. Roger tries to help her grasp a [...]

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Perfect Moment Monday: Free Fall-in’

November 27, 2011

When you get a 70 degree day on a weekend in November, it’s prudent to chuck the To Do list and play hookey from your chores. Roger and I, on a whim, loaded up the kids and pretended we were tourists in our own city. We stopped at an urban park and let Tessa and [...]

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Perfect Moment Monday: The ordinary is extraordinary

October 23, 2011

It’s a lazy Saturday, and an unseasonably warm one for mid-October. I’m taking advantage of the lazy part by reading a good book and taking an afternoon snooze. The others in my family are taking advantage of the gorgeous weather by heading outside. I awake from my short nap to the sound of merriment outside [...]

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Perfect Moment Monday: My StarCon experience

September 25, 2011

Now I know how Trekkies feel. Not during their “real” lives, but while at StarCon. I got to spend the weekend with one of my clans. A bunch of mostly strangers with a common experience and passion and language and pointy ears. Well, maybe not that last one, but a bunch of people who really [...]

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