Jenaissance

I have been hating climate change for over two decades. Willing it to be untrue. Sure that the scientists (one of whom I am married to) were missing something, that our beautiful, resilient planet would have some trick up its sleeve. Reading about it, I shut down. I’m either hopelessly…

(sigh.) This is not how it was supposed to go. There’s been no basic training and I’m not ready. But it looks like Jenny has a quest for me and she won’t take no for an answer. I was hoping my first nemesis could be Clutterista. I knew The Usurer…

Jenny Goodguts saved my life. Jenny Goodguts, a doctor’s appointment, and a lucky New Hampshire quarter (face up!). Saved my life may be a touch of overstatement, but I can tell you with full confidence that they brought me back to life. There is nothing Jenny told me that I…

I have an addiction and a theme song and only one can prevail. Right now, it’s the addiction. I’ve been playing Farmville 2, or Tropic Escape, or now Hay Day, on my iPad since early October 2016. I can put it away for a few days and then somehow the…

So, remember those blogs about the trouble I was having sleeping?? It turns out, there is a small amount of caffeine in (most) Kombucha. As a new convert to fermented foods, one small change I had made was to start drinking about a half bottle of Kombucha most days (which,…

I FIGURED OUT HOW TO SEND NEW POSTS AS EMAILS! I sent an email to the people who subscribed to my blog 2.5 years ago!! I know how to split my list to allow readers to choose the frequency of hearing from me!!! Thank you to the blog Gretchen Louise,…

I’m still not sleeping well. Last night I gave up and got out of bed at 12:21 and came downstairs, made some sleepy tea in the dark, then gave up, turned on the lamp, got out a notebook, planned fiendishly for about an hour, writing down all of the thoughts…

I turn off the lights. I turn onto my left side – facing away from that pinpoint of green light shining on the other side. Every night I think about covering that little light with electrical tape and every day I forget until it is shining and I’m lying in bed in…

I meditated this morning for about 8 minutes. I went to a website where Deepak Chopra offered a timed meditation on Hope. I didn’t think I needed more hope. That’s not what I would have said had someone asked me, but in thinking about it I think I did –…

I found a shiny New Hampshire quarter, minted in 2000, face up while walking in to Trader Joe’s this afternoon. I felt that it was auspicious so I bent down and picked it up, not knowing at the time about the year or the state. The bonanza would have been…