The real story of Mother’s Day is beginning to be be recognized. What is so often thought of as a day to be nice to your mother has far more complexity, spirituality, and politics sewn into it than most contemporary people know. No matter how you slice it, the history of Mother’s Day is intimately […]
Challenge Yourself
In April of this year, ending just a few days ago, I completed the Blogging A to Z Challenge with 26 posts on this site. One was put up each day, Monday through Saturday, with Sundays off. Such a schedule allows for the writing days and days off to equal the number of the days […]
Über Ubiquity
There is a tendency for people to think that everyone else knows what they know. In this day where information is but a click away, it is even easier than it once was to think that what we know and think is ubiquitous. The word Über in German means above. In contemporary parlance it also […]
Sacred Feminine
To talk about the feminine divine in today’s world, I think it is helpful to look at a basic definition of what sacred means. sacred adjective 1 the priest entered the sacred place: holy, hallowed, blessed, consecrated, sanctified, venerated, revered; archaic blest. 2 sacred music: religious, spiritual, devotional, church, ecclesiastical. ANTONYMS secular, profane. 3 the […]
Quintessential Self-Publishing With WordPress
WordPress Background I was in Phoenix this past weekend for a beta version of a WordPress conference for bloggers called Press Publish. This is major news. At least 1 in 5 websites in the world, and it is approaching 1 in 4, run on WordPress. Wordpress has had gatherings called WordCamps beginning in 2006. I did […]
Press Publish – 21st C. Paper and Pen
Women’s voices need to be heard. Those of us over the first blush of youth, and the second, and maybe even the third… sigh… are the first generation of women who are writing, podcasting, vlogging our history, the first inclusive history ever written about women. About women, for women, by women. I know it has […]