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the stop doing list via live tv


View the segment: STOP DOING Lists … Mark Kelley and I talk it up this week.

mothering.com: new column for modern mamas


I’ve got a new column on Mothering.com, called: Very Big Love: For Seekers, Mamas, and Mavens This week’s article: Mindful Speech and Supreme Kid-Respect It’s such an honour to be involved in anything that Peggy O’Mara does – she an icon of conscious birth and natural families. And get this – Mothering.com has the #1...

dancing to cancer


{If you’re viewing this via email, click on the title above to watch the video clip.} Emotion and passion trumps all: technique, pretense, ego. This dance translates the fight to live, and the essence of real partnership. The response from the first judge, Nigel, is particularly profound in terms of creativity and courage. Get your...

a poem for my son


mother’s day when you were born my days were suddenly full of trees and apples of hope and the machinations of terror I conceived of space my world became the size of a seed pointed and round no intruders a harvest of possibility only sorrow that I could imagine my world became a growing diamond...

kids are people too: loving heart, mindful speech


How would you feel if, when you first met someone new, they said to you, “Are you going to play shy?” or “Looks like someone’s in a bad mood.” Grown-ups say the darnedest things… READ MY FULL ARTICLE ON SIMPLEMOM.NET – ONE OF MAY FAVOURITE SMART PARENTING SITES.