Workshop I: Using Oils for baking/and gift making. January 4th-7th, 2011 LadyHawk and HippyMom is sponsoring an Essential Oil series that will run once a month for the next three months. Each workshop will be only a few days and will be filled with won…

I really never thought of myself as a hippie until recently.  I guess I really always was one, and it is rather funny to me that I never realized it until I came to Hippymom a few years ago.  I am 50 years old, so I remember hippies of the 60s and 70…

When most people think of Thanksgiving they think of turkey with all the fixings, but more families are sitting down to meals that are deliciously vegetarian or that at least offer meatless choices.  I am vegetarian, but my husband and children eat a …

Crystals and gemstones are Mother Nature’s mysterious gifts and have been eagerly sought after for thousands of years. There are many ways that crystals and other stones can been used to enhance our daily life. HippyMom will hold a Rock Workshop …

It was a bright, clear, and beautiful sunny day, and the little girl with long tangled curls and faded skirt felt happier than she had ever been in her life.  She stopped every once in awhile to picked up stones that looked just right to skip across t…

As the sultry days of summer give way to the dusky chill of fall, thoughts naturally turn to warming dishes such as stews and casseroles. The tagine, a hearty Moroccan dish, deliciously fits the bill. Tender, fragrant, sweet and savory; it is the epito…

I’ve always been attracted to the pirate archetype. Not real pirates, the kind who actually go around looting and raping and pillaging, although I may well have some of those lurking on the decaying branches of my family tree, whose ragged leaves…

According to UNESCO one in five adults in the world is still not literate and two-thirds of them are women while 72 million children are out of school.  So that must be an international problem and not of much concern to more developed countries like …

Rage is a word we hear more often than we did when I was a child.  Granted that was a long time ago and we didn’t have the internet (yes, I am that old) to inform us instantly of events around the world, but still it seems rage is, well….all the r…

In order to have good recall it is necessary to be able to identify things clearly and accurately, to label them correctly, to file them in the right place and to cross index where necessary; to file them efficiently for reference and retrieval when it…