This is an excerpt from our upcoming release, Meditation Mama, soon to be released by Jupiter Gardens Press. This is a fascinating look at meditation and connection with your unborn child as well as a way to deepen your connection with your own child after birth. I hope you enjoy. Meditation Mama by Sasha Vivelo [...]
So a few days ago I talked about finding what makes you happy and pursuing it on a daily basis. But if you’re like me, then thinking of those things that you do just for you can be tough. I know helping my mom with chores, for example, makes me happy, because I like helping [...]
The question has come up more than a few times in the last couple of weeks: what makes me happy? The answer isn’t as easy as you think. After all, in asking the question, the intent is to find out what makes me happy for me. Not for anyone else, not for any other reason, [...]
Holy Cow: A Factory Farm Fable by Darla Jasmine full-length novel non-fiction, animal rights, farming, agriculture, ISBN# 978-0-9848970-2-5 Cover Art by Winterheart Design A hip, big-breasted messiah, who just happens to be a wise and enigmatic dairy cow with healing milk, materializes in a suburban intersection. When this sacred cow calls together her apostles—some human, [...]
So maybe I shouldn’t blog when the thermometer reads 100.0 and beeps like a crazy droid when I finish taking my temperature. But I am, because really, if you put aside the fever and chills, the sinus headache/pain, and the dry cough, I don’t feel that bad. No, I’m not making a trek too far [...]
Much has been written about the power of pets. From the claim substantiated by studies that older individuals who have a pet live longer, healthier lives, to the studies touting their stress relief, there’s no denying the claim that sharing our lives with animals helps us…and it helps them! With the re-release of my previously [...]
In Reality Shift 2: Filtration System, Jonah and Shanna help Julie MacKenzie, a girl with autism, filter out the entities that are bombarding her. I’ve been asked a few times why I chose to use a character with an autism spectrum disorder. The answer is simple: My 12-year-old daughter has Asperger’s Syndrome. So that’s what [...]
Nearly eleven and a half years ago, my mother was on the telemetry (heart) ward of a hospital and the doctor’s didn’t think she’d make it out. Five years seemed like a pipedream, and as I visited her, I knew things were in motion that would change my life forever. Five years ago, my mother [...]
I’m sitting in the waiting room while a family member has some tests run. We’ve been dealing with a health issue for about a week, where a routine appointment turned out to be not so everyday. There’s a lot of unknowns, but the tests are being done, and I have faith that everything will turn [...]
I’ve suffered from allergies and sinus problems for as long as I remember. As a child, I was frequently prescribed the big brown bottles of cough syrup from the doctor. Yellow was Actifed; purple was Sudifed. I preferred the Actifed, and back then pseudoephedrine needed to come from a prescription. The fact that I have [...]