After I posted Monday about how to chase away bad dreams, Valerie sent me this apt, playful spin on a Native American dream catcher, posted via the super design blog swissmiss. “If Native Americans worried about spam…” is the tagline they gave it, and to me it says everything about how we hold bad things…

I’ve long learned that one of the best ways to start my day is with some protein. This doesn’t usually stop me from having a brimming bowl of Uncle Sam’s with raisins and oat milk (yu-uhm). But I find I feel better, more grounded and less hungry when I get some actual protein in the…

Bram Stoker (you know, the author of Dracula), once said, “How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads. To whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.”  I wish I were among those people–although I’m not sure such folk actually exist, at least not every…

That’s “Happy New Year!” in Hawaiian. I used to live in Hawaii and that melifluous greeting flows back into my brain this time of year. Hawaiians once celebrated “Makahiki” (mah-kah-HEE- kee), an ancient tradition in Decemberish devoted to thanking the earth for its bounty. According to an article on About.com, they rested, feasted, and put…

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