Ha!! More archives from the past, this one literally made me laugh out loud:

OMG. I am having the least Buddhist moment of my entire life but I have to post this ( Read more... )

Whoa...I'm going through my old blog archives and found this:

The pendulum of my spiritual beliefs swings back and forth regularly between liberal Catholic and Buddhist. I know, that's a strange combination. I've been fascinated with the Catholic church ever since I was a kid and my paternal grandma (whose mother was born in Ireland) took me to ( Read more... )

I'm taking a break right now from sewing and making bread to sit down with a hard cider and change the songs on my old-school punk playlist, and it occurs to me that my domestic activities may look retro and unfeminist, but in fact I think the exact opposite is true ( Read more... )

For several years when my babies were small I wanted to be a homebirth midwife. I got away from the thought for a while there, but lately I've been dreaming about it a lot again ( Read more... )

I am trying to decide what my next step should be ( Read more... )

It is possible to hold two opposing ideas at the same time. For example, I simultaneously rail against the unhealthy nature of processed food yet have a disgusting love of Fruity Pebbles. Or more seriously, I still love the man I knew as my grandfather, even though I learned after my grandmother's death that he cheated on her terribly and subjected ( Read more... )

I am still happy every day, which is some kind of record. Even when I wake up with a bad fibromyalgia day, feeling like my entire body hurts too much to move, I am still happy overall. The same is true when I feel anxiety about doctor bills I can't pay or the fact that J has to find a new job soon and we'll have to move. It's not that bad things ( Read more... )

I cringe to say this, but I think God cured my depression ( Read more... )

How is it possible to fall in love with someone you've been married to for 16 years? I don't mean that it's a renewed feeling of love after a period of complacency, either. I mean, really and truly for the first time ( Read more... )

"You seemed too smart to fall for that religion stuff. Really, I would've expected this from anyone but you." This was said to me recently by someone upon learning of my conversion to Catholicism, which will be officially complete in two weeks ( Read more... )