Hi lovely Tribers!
Hope this Saturday morning finds you blessed and happy. What do you have on your plate for today?
My partner, Mark, and I will be taking a good friend of ours, Linda, to Hooper Pools in Colorado. The pool is naturally heated (98-100 degrees), and they have a therapeutic pool that ranges from 105-107 degrees. How nice. Unfortunately, I can't get into that one because I'm almost 5 months pregnant. That's okay--it's all worth it for this little Bean I've been wanting for so... read more

can be so annoying. They can also be so cute. Not usually at the same time, not for me. I had to put Blaze, my new little kitten, in his kennel because he's tearing up my yurt! My new to me Mexican quilt I just bought is almost shredded! Argh! I feel a little guilty about his imprisonment, but my goddess, what about my sanity? He's cute, though, that's for sure. Healthy. Robust. Loud.

It's been a while since I've written . . . I'm still alive and well. Yurt living has been challenging. At... read more

Tomorrow is Y-Day. I get to move into the yurt and realize yet another dream. Life is good. Summer school is over, my summer is officially here. I am sitting in one of my favorite Pecos restaurants, enjoying a plate of huevo rancheros, thinking about all of the packing I need to do before I get the U-Haul tomorrow. This evening, I will meet a grandmother of one of my students. She is a curandera, and I think she's the one I've been praying to meet. We're gonna go see Jose Feliciano. It's gonn... read more

You know, for years I've envisioned living in a yurt in the mountains. I kept thinking I could buy some land, put up a yurt and live in it while building an earthen home. Well, I didn't buy any land, but the opportunity to live in a 30 sq. ft. yurt in the middle of a forest on a mountain minutes from my new school has arisen, and I am thinking I'm gonna take it. It's time to see if I really have what it takes to rough it, because while there is electricity, there is nothing else in the yurt. ... read more