by Martha Brettschneider | Aug 20, 2014 | Mindful Parenting, Mindfulness
It’s been years since I’ve cried this much. I don’t like to cry. I’m perfectly comfortable with other people crying, but as the only female in a house seething with testosterone, crying wrecks my street cred. Lots of my friends have been crying...
by Martha Brettschneider | Aug 7, 2014 | Life Lessons, Meditation, Mindfulness, Photography
Home two and a half days now, and still realigning. The laundry is done. The fridge is restocked. But I’m still getting my head refocused. For two weeks, during an RV trip through several US national parks with my husband and two teenaged sons, I went BIG. Step...
by Martha Brettschneider | Jun 10, 2014 | Breast Cancer, Fitness, Life Lessons, Meditation, Mindful Gardening, Mindfulness, Most Popular Posts, Motivation
Five years ago today, on June 10, 2009, I lay on an operating table with my arms immobilized in Velcro crucifix constraints forming perfect 90 degree angles from my torso. Salty tears slid down my temples into my hair, with no way for me to wipe them away. Realizing...
by Martha Brettschneider | May 9, 2014 | Life Lessons, Meditation, Mindful Gardening, Mindfulness, Photography
Please excuse my absence. I’ve been trying to channel a chickadee for the past several weeks. Did you know that chickadees have retinas lined with receptors that are twice as dense as those in human retinas? I learned that in David George Haskell’s The...
by Martha Brettschneider | Apr 6, 2014 | Life Lessons, Mindful Gardening, Mindfulness, Most Popular Posts, Motivation
First, I wanted to apologize to my email subscribers for my last post’s (A Few of My Favorite Things) crazy formatting. The piece was fine on the website, but I didn’t size the photos correctly for the emailed version, which mucked the whole thing up....
by Martha Brettschneider | Mar 12, 2014 | Life Lessons, Mindfulness, Motivation
Hi folks! How do you like my new blog design? Since this year is focused on Whispers From My Garden, I asked the lovely and talented Tara DuBois of Unbound Website Creations to design a new header with some of my garden photography. As I wrote back in January, my 2014...
