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 …

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…

How did the term synchronicity originate? A famous Swiss psychoanalyst named Carl Jung (1875-1961) first coined the term “synchronicity” to explain what he called “meaningful coincidences ” that are not related by any causal eve…

Several months ago, I was approached to do a book review for a children’s book called What Does it Mean to be Global? by Rana DiOrio. As an activist for equality, I was thrilled to be part of this book and its special way of illustrating to our c…

Reflections on a Visit Tonight my sister and brother in law came to visit us for a few hours, and although they only come to our area once a year or less the visits are always magic to me.  I am the youngest of seven children, so most of the older one…

For most of us summer brings to mind sun, outdoor recreation, perhaps water activities, gardening, and sweltering days mowing lawns, and hordes of mosquitoes and other insects.  This summer my favorite activity that I have indulged in is meditation, a…