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A sparkling little corner for navigating motherhood, family, life’s unexpected storms, and all the glorious chaos in between, with plenty of humor, heart, and a dash of magic.

  • Glitter Cyclone Healing
    Everyone copes with the sorrows of the world in different ways– for me, I choose to play in what I call “a glitter cyclone,” aka my Magic Treehouse camp.
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  • A Shimmer of Hummingbirds and the Hardware Store
    Ecstatic whooping, chirping, buzzing… dancing in the sky like drunken sailors after a night of carousing, drunk on nectar, zipping to the sun, diving back to hover midair before dashing full-speed towards a blossoming tree, a delicate stop to plunge into a flower, drink some more…
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  • Raising a Son
    The boy has finally found a sport he likes. After years of trying football, basketball, and baseball, he tried Lacrosse a few weeks ago and has been happily running around the fields of Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachussetts for weeks now. When he played football last year, I secretly called
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  • Grief and the Holidays
    I’ve written before how death and divorce can make holidays especially piercing, seeing everyone with their loved ones when so many of mine are now gone. This is the first Easter in 6 years that didn’t feel like I was being stabbed with 1,000 tiny pins all day long. I
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  • The Velvet Glove of Directing a Film
    If directing a film is a bejeweled velvet glove, then I am Gypsy Rose Lee’s arm– because directing fits me like a glove! I LOVE directing! It’s sacred storytelling, listening, learning, collaboration, thinking on my feet, it’s having a vision in my head that I communicate to my expert crew,
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  • Let the Filming BEGIN!
    EEEEEEK!!! I’m so excited (and terrified) to announce …. (drum roll please) I’m heading to New Orleans this week to begin filming and the Kickstarter for my documentary is NOW LIVE!!
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  • “You Must Move Through the World in a Way that Enchants You!”
    “You must move through the world in a way that enchants you!”
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  • Nita & Zita Documentary
    Maybe their mystique grew because of their vintage glamour combined with their eccentric recluse years where they never left their house and painted it top to bottom with polka dots, while sewing thousands of costumes for each other. Or maybe it was because after they died with no family, their
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  • How Kerouac Taught Me to Love
    “The only people that interest me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones that never yawn or say a commonplace thing but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles
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