I don’t make New Year’s resolutions and haven’t for years. I think we all know how long we only eat healthy foods or exercise for an hour a day no matter what, right? We don’t get annoyed at the kids for a few days until the newness of their toys wears off and we are really ready for school to start again, and keeping the house spotless while we find [...]
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 70s and all the things that being a hippie represented back then. I saw them on TV with flowers in [...]
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 the pond that ran behind the barn near her house, and she ended up with two heavy pockets full by the time she [...]
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 the USA, right?
No, actually it is a problem in the USA as well according to a five-year study commissioned by the US Department of Education. [...]
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 rage now. I’m not talking about two boys having a fistfight over a girl in the school yard or [...]
Spring is now a memory of cool evenings, warmer days, and the misery of allergies for many of us as a new season of growth burst into life around us. Now that summer is here we shift to a period of abundance and fertility, and since our gardens and grocery stores are full of a variety of delicious and colorful fruits and vegetables it is easy to slip into [...]
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, and I have discovered that summer meditations are actually quite popular and really worth the time and effort. There are sites that have pictures and instructions for planting summer meditation gardens [...]
Its that time of the month! No, not THAT time (well, ok, it could be, but I’m really not speaking poon right now, oddly enough). Its time to plug the new month of activities on HM! While I was busy frolicking in the ocean and watching belly dancers gone wild, MamaBirdie and her plant stole my spotlight… literally.
So, without further ado, I present:
MamaBirdie does HippyMom!
