I asked my mother if I could use an email comment from her as a guest blog. It's a beautiful memory that adds another layer to the "raking the sand" discussion. Thanks, Mom! Guest Post...
My Mother’s Beach Raking Musings
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Raking the Sand — Literally
"Learn to accept the possibility that the universe is helping you with what you are doing." Julie Cameron, The Artist's Way Just when I was wishing I knew somebody familiar with my blog...
Seizure Day
"There are no problems; there are only situations." Eckhart Tolle Spirit, my 11-year-old yellow lab/golden retriever mix, did me a favor yesterday. He waited until 5:45 am to have his...
Unwanted Exposure
See the little frog in the picture here? He didn't ask me to, but I exposed him to the world when I opened my patio umbrella today. I seem to be doing that a lot this week --...
I Dare You
"Do one thing every day that scares you." Eleanor Roosevelt I am new to this wild world of social media. I had a Facebook site, but rarely used it. I don't like to be a slave to the...
Zigzag Mama
All of us have our "Ah ha" moments, those events that serve as exclamation points over the span of our personal histories. In my motherhood journey, my first really big "Ah ha" happened...
Pushing My Limits
This morning I spent an hour trying to figure out how to link my blog to my heretofore little used Facebook page. I stumbled blindly through plug-ins and widgets and may have managed to...
Creative Clutter
My house is back in order--the bowl of rooms always does the trick. I got back to the gym after my blog-birthing hiatus, and that pushed me closer to feeling like myself again (running...
The Bowl of Rooms
It's time to cut up the list of rooms. Getting the blog up and running this past week has dumped me (and therefore the whole family) into a new chaos cycle. Dishes are piled in the sink,...
Finding the Purpose Behind the Pain
I'm still learning how to configure the blog. My domain name has yet to reach its target, and I haven't figured out yet how to add a "Subscribe" button. But I wake up each morning...
Re-entry
As I write this, my domain name (marthabrettschneider.com) is still making its way through cyberspace from my old webmaster-controlled business website to this blog site. It's sort of...
Embracing the Blog as Transformation
"Who knows? Maybe what you've written will help others, will be a small part of the solution. You don't even have to know how or in what way, but if you are writing the clearest, truest...