My Jess

Today my first born turns 16.   I naturally ruminate on the events that led up to this day, the anniversary of his birth.  It was a hard day that revealed a lot about both of our most basic traits.  My pregnancy was flawless…I LOVED being pregnant.  I felt powerful...

Thoughts on Christmas 2009

I have a few precious moments of serenity as the boys have run down to the neighborhood park for a football game, and my sweet husband has retired to the haven of our bed for a much needed nap.  It is Christmas, again, and we were up late last night wrapping presents...

Happy Solstice!

In the Northern Hemisphere, we are seeing the Winter Solstice today.  It is a special time of year for me….only because I feel the holiness of this energy internally.  It FEELS like the darkness, it feels like the time to drop the deadwood, it feels like the...

GET OFF THE HOLIDAY “CRAZY BUS”

I wrote this back in 2006, when I was fiercely examining how to reclaim the holidays as my own delightful invention, rather than something belonging to someone else that I was trying on.  Many of us seem to blindly follow the crowd, as if in some sort of trance, when...