Fostering a new renaissance through creativity, authenticity, spirituality, and art
Polly Castor 
My son is industriously indulging in leftover Chemistry experiments before Physics starts next week and I want him to carefully pack away all this gear for his sister’s future use. (And yes, that’s the back of my living room, in case you are curious…) The fumes are not particularly appetizing. I’m looking forward to his … Read more
My newspaper article about Christian Science and doctors was reprinted in the August 22, 2011 issue of the Christian Science Sentinel under “Items of Interest.” I was pleased to see this article have “legs,” but was not thrilled with the layout of it on the magazine page. Alas. If you missed it prior, you can … Read more
So nice to have the whole family together, even if just for a couple days… Here are my two girls… My oldest starts her junior year in college tomorrow…
Don’t you love summer food? The photos below include these recipes already on the blog (click on any title to go to the recipe): My Vegetable Lasagna Heirloom Tomato Bisque Our Favorite Green Soup Baked Shrimp with Tomatoes and Feta Crab Salad Warm Tomato, Olive and Arugula Salad Apricot Squares Tabbouleh with Shrimp, Feta, Dill … Read more
Today I drove down to Washington D.C. to pick up my oldest daughter from her internship, move her from Asher House in DC back to her house in Annapolis, and then bring her home for the weekend before school starts. She had a great internship! The photo above shows her with her office. Here are … Read more
Many years ago we started having my youngest daughter’s birthday party in the summer near her half birthday, due to multiple cancellations and rescheduling due to weather of anything we tried to plan in February. So a tradition of an August Quarry Party has evolved… A good time is had by all!
I bought this outstanding book for my niece’s birthday tomorrow. It is a picture book that takes the statistics of the world’s people and extrapolates them into understandable numbers. So if the world were a hundred person village, what are the ages of the people in the village? What are their religions, who has fresh … Read more
I just want to say that any of you that still have got me on a pedestal, you better just go ahead and get me off of it. I can’t take one more person saying, “I don’t know how you do it all.” Truth is, I don’t. I’ve got scads of unprocessed piles and legions … Read more
I really enjoyed this book and give it five stars. It is a quick read about the daughter of a Baptist preacher in Georgia, who can’t wait to get out of there and get on with her life. Meanwhile, she has to learn to not be so self absorbed, and that destiny is more an … Read more
Two years ago, before most people had ever heard of it, I blogged about the book The Help. So I haven’t read it recently, but I loved the new movie rendition and have very few complaints to lodge against it. I can’t speak to what it is like to see this movie without having read … Read more
This is a delicious summer side dish. In the years past, I used to make it with a store bought cole slaw dressing, before I got committed to no high fructose corn syrup and no unpronounceable ingredients. So here is my improved version with a dressing from Julia Child… Jicama Slaw Recipe 1/2 jicama, … Read more
This book is an incredible book. I loved it even though it dealt with disease and death interlaced with a lot of love-making. This is a gorgeous story of commitment, poignantly told. It is about the beauty, grandeur and fragility of the natural world. This author has a true gift with words, using lush descriptive … Read more
“… And it is a strange thing that most of the feeling we call religious, most of the mystical outcrying which is one of the most prized and used and desired reactions of our species, is really the understanding and the attempt to say that man is related to the whole thing, related inextricably to … Read more
