Six years ago, HippyMom became a source of love, inspiration, angst and amazing feats of parenthood, womanhood, and the overall genius of several women who were essentially trapped within the ties of motherhood.
I’d like to say it was otherwise, but, well, that would be a lie. I’m all about the transparency.
From that day forward, HippyMom was ebbed and flowed with the changes experienced by the members, and even the world [...]
Ruth St. Denis was an American vaudeville performer who is best known as a pioneer of Modern Dance. However, her work was so heavily influenced by the Orientalist fashion that was all the rage at the turn of the last century that she could just as easily be considered a prototype for the American bellydancer-as-artist. The famous story is that she was inspired by an Orientalist advertisement for cigarettes. She [...]
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 [...]
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 whisper of merchant seamen and stolen brides along the coasts of Malacca. No, it was not the dirty old brigands I admired, but the glamorized Hollywood ideal of [...]
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. [...]
I love to meet other people. Mostly, because I love to pick their brains and observe them in their natural (or unnatural) environment as they try to navigate the murky waters of socializing. One of the things we do on HippyMom is encourage all of our members to get offline and meet and make real-life connections. Not that the online friendships are less important, but there’s nothing like being able [...]
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 [...]
Join us for a Blogging Workshop, July 27-31, 2010!
Have you ever wanted to share your kids’ cute stories with friends and family? Did you know a blog can also be a way to sell your art or homemade crafts? How about focusing your talents on a cause that’s important to you (**coughBPcough**)? In her quest for fame and popularity, Tarot has deemed it necessary to show the [...]
