VIPs: Very Important Posts for March 2012

April 5, 2012

Below is a collection of posts from the past month that made me think long after I read them. Whether you are already acquainted with these writers or not, I encourage you to click over to see if these posts are meaningful to you, too. ~~~~~ In her post Left Unsaid, Luna of Life From [...]

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Things stuck in my craw

April 2, 2012

As far back as I can remember I had an affinity for John F Kennedy. He was president when I was born. I was sitting in a high chair when my parents heard he had died, tragically. Later, in 7th grade, I made a shrinky-dink pendant with his face on it (I also made a [...]

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Perfect Moment Monday: It’s fun to play at the YMCA

March 25, 2012

Sometimes a perfect moment is a breezy, gradual unfoldment that lands on my shoulder like a butterfly. And sometimes a perfect moment is a whoosh of bliss, gushing through my entire being, shot directly from the Universe. This month I got to combine some favorites in many categories: activity, music and people. The activity was [...]

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Balance: Heaven on earth

March 21, 2012

Earlier this week we celebrated a time of balance, the moment in which the earth is midway on her path between solstices. Even the word equinox, equal night, denotes balance. The precise time of the spring equinox was 11:14 pm where I live, so I didn’t mark it with much fanfare. However, 10 hours later, [...]

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And the 2012 shamrock goes to…

March 17, 2012

……………………………………….drumroll, please…………………………………… Congratulations to Erica at ParenthoodForMe! Her entry garnered almost 51% of the votes cast. Our eggs and sperm lack esteem Under a microscope they do not gleam Ain’t the birds and the bees Nor doing the ol’ dirty deed Mrs. Spit says things aren’t what they seem. Keiko of The Infertility Voice came [...]

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Final round of the 2012 Limerick Chick contest. VOTE!

March 12, 2012

Who’ll be The Limerick Chick? You readers get to help pick We have the top two They’re brilliant, so coo’ Such an homage to Saint Pat-er-ick Our corner of the blogosphere has winnowed eight entries to two. Here are our finalists. Vote for your favorite by 8 pm Friday night (March 16, MDT). The winner [...]

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