Feeling really girly and my usual femme enfant nature,I have on my girl next door long denim overalls with a sage top,I made some grilled vegetables for lunch,have been working on my Pinterest(katiewistow) board 'the handmade house' I imagine it as a wooden cottage in the Hebrides or Connemara by the sea.Russian dolls on the bookshelves as well as books on fairy tales and lore,Celtic art framed and all about,reading from 'Celtic meditations for the turning year' every morning,cooking traditional...

Whenever I look at a map of Lubbock, Texas, there are those times I have to shake my head. To this day, I'll never understand why city planners could not conjure up a better, more comprehensive freeway plan.

What I'm referring to in this posting is the northwest side of town and quick ways to access it. If only now, there are any. When the powers that be had come up with a plan for freeways in Lubbock, Texas, why couldn't they pick a routing for a new road to...

I am suppose to create a Happy Merry Christmas but wasn't able to do so because I am having a hard time finding the "Post to your Blog" link.

I guess this website only allows the POST to BLOG option to those users who have made a post on the FORUM.

Anyway. I am not here to explain that thing.

HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone.

Never mind that a New Year is coming. That, we can't do anything about. But the weather in North Texas is still really cold, and that, too, is something we can't do much about. So what if it's winter time? The latest forecasts have Dallas/Fort Worth possibly dealing with potential ice on the ground as early as Sunday, with gradual sub-freezing temperatures.

Let's just keep our fingers crossed.

It had only been about three years since this...

Well I've been reading the art of enchantment (artofenchantment.net)still,It saves me from despair most mornings but the mysteries are quite elusive at the moment,I can't feel it all.I researched "women as healers" yesterday morning and found two good books "woman as healer" by Jeanne Achterberg and "witches,midwives and nurses" which is very feminist.Both of them speak on witchcraft - that witches were just old wise woman healers - innocent and persecuted by the church.But...