Fostering a new renaissance through creativity, authenticity, spirituality, and art
Polly Castor 
The Christian Science Monitor just celebrated its 100th birthday last fall as a respected international daily newspaper. It is now in the process of redesigning itself, converting from a daily paper to a 24/7 online news service, with a paper edition published weekly on Fridays. It is the first newspaper with such a wide audience … Read more
This book is more vapid than most I read. I requested it from the library last summer to read at the beach. But I didn’t get a call that my turn had arrived until February, so at least we know there was a demand for it! I was initially interested in this book since I … Read more
I’ve been reading the Message translation of the Bible. Here are some tidbits from Psalms 1- 25…
Enjoy these Valentine’s Photos from previous years at our house and enjoy making happy memories today with your loved ones.
Our family birthday tradition includes my mother’s recipe of cut out cookies in the appropriate digits…
started this book by Wilma Wolitzer because I am a doctor’s daughter, and that has to some extent defined me, so I thought I could relate to it, but…
Project Mulberry by Linda Sue Park is a young adult book that I read with my 12 year old. We both enjoyed it, since it was an accessible, easy read, with…
I painted this on my birthday, listening to jazz, transported to a place I’ve been that was warmer, sitting on a comfortable rock, near a babbling brook.
My refrigerator is jammed full as it usually is. My rotation of food includes creating leftovers everyday and…
This page from my Box-a-day Art Journal is from January 27, 2009 until February 7, 2009.
I woke up to my youngest daughter having made me popovers for breakfast. After that sumptuous beginning of my day, I sat in a quiet living room sipping
A friend of mine also has an early February birthday, so we have fun celebrating together during this birthday season by having a lovely lunch followed by
I enjoyed the first two-thirds of this book better than the end. Initially I was giving it five stars but it slipped down to four by the end since
My twelve year old daughter is doing something called “Brave Writer” as part of her homeschooling curriculum which includes “Tuesday Teatime.”
These cookies are the classic Toll House recipe, the original chocolate chip cookie recipe off back of the Nestle’s Chip bag.
