Amara
    Amara REALLY wanted a clown piñata.  So, here it is!  These photos are from her 3rd birthday.  My little munchkin.   And here she is with her dad, and the piñata. My sweet little one with her baby pantaloons!!!!!

Sol’s Animal Affinity
Have I ever told you about Sol’s bird thing?  She has a strange connection to them that allows her to hold them.  It must be raising her with chickens or something that does it.  Above is one unfortunate bird who got stuck inside our house.  Sol saved her.   The above extraordinary momen

In Praise of a Cash-Based Livelihood
Actually touching the money that I make Hold, Fold the bills, large and small Thanking God, Providence, and Honest Work   …   …     I used to be Direct Deposit Spending it through checks, cards, internet I never saw it Or held aloft the soft, stinky piles of bills.

From the archives: Little Miss Muffin’s Day at the Fair, from 2002
part ONE, 8 July 02 Depending on your relationship to me and your interest in these missives of mi vida, you should either a) delete this now, while you have a chance, b) print this out for later, c) save it for later, or d) go get a snack and settle in.  It’s a long one! It’s fun for me to tell this in third person, like it happened to someone else, one of my myriad personaes, and in case you didn’t know LITTLE MISS MUFFIN had a booth at an arts n farts fair, I mean arts n crafts, peddling muffins (duh), cookies, pies, lemon bars, veggie pizza, and mango waffles.  So much work I don’t eve

Anima Sola
Random, unrelated thoughts passing through the filter of Me: I thought of a quotable quote a couple days ago:   “I couldn’t afford therapy AND a hobby, so I took up bellydance.”   then I went further with it…   “I don’t have time for therapy, a women’s group, exercise, a hobby, AND art, so I took up Tribal Style Bellydance.”   I was speaking with the sister of a friend, her name is Stacy and she is from B.C., Canada, and she said “Lives almost seem to be hand-crafted here…in North America, you buy your life from a box.”