Cafe Now

Another traffic rerouting. I'd love to get to Cafe Now more often, but it just isn't happening these days. It's taking me forever to get my blogs the way I want them. It'd be easy if I didn't have so many different personalities. What I'm currently thinking, and obviously that is want to change, Cafe Now will be the place I write my observations, ponderings, and things I like to contemplate or...

I've been meaning to do this ever since my 13 (then. she's 14 now) year old daughter turned me on to Natasha Beningfield's song Unwritten. As a writer who sometimes struggles with getting at "first thoughts" (as coined by writer Julia Cameron), the lyrics to Natasha's song are so helpful. And inspiring. Kind of a theme song of sorts. Not sure if it's kosher to do so, but want to post the lyrics...

My ipod reads my energy. I'm sure of it. Tonight, after two days of agonizing over my taxes that are due in three days, I took a break to do some of the dishes that've been piling up. Wanting to listen to some music, I got out the ipod, put it on shuffle, donned the headphones, and got to work with the sponge, soap, and day old dishes. What's the first song my ipod decides to play? Out of 1669...

Yesterday's closure of the Jackson County Library System in Southern Oregon, due to lack of funding, is the largest ever shuttering of libraries in the history of the United States. The doors at Ashland's public library were locked at 5pm on Friday, April 6th. In a staged protest/sit-in--proposed by several young library patrons and carried out with the help of supportive adults--a large group...

This is the video that accompanies the Daily Tidings profile on Tomãs Lockwood, published by The Daily Tidings on 3/21/07 Tomãs Lockwood has lived outdoors, by choice, for 24 years. Believing that the earth is his home, he doesn't consider himself homeless and prefers being referred to as an outdoorsman. In this video, Tomãs talks about riding the rails to Ashland, why he picks...

I just had an epiphany and had to come write it down before it slips away. Not sure I should share it publicly, but here goes. I was sitting on the toilet-- yes, epiphanies can happen anywhere--and I picked up the Sept/Oct 2006 issue of Spirituality & Health that a doctor friend loaned me. I'm reading an article by Louise Danielle Palmer titled: Empowered by the Sacred. It's an article about...

Okay, doing a little housecleaning here. Putting the writing links on the sidebar. Next up is adding to my quote blogs. I've had piles of books/scraps of paper/magazines/etc., that I want to pull quotes from--really good quotes. Damn, there's just so much I want to do. And then . . . maybe some good ole fashioned blogging? Imagine that....