Awhile back my friend Rita C. posted a piece here on the VTH called 'Women who sleep with dogs'.   It's a sweet, edgy, tongue in cheek poem that made me think about the wolves I've slept with. Now, all you hundreds of past lovers of mine out there in the world, you can rest easy.  I'm not talking about you.  Of course. That ...

flickr photo:  cattycamehome  are the dastardly crabapples bouncing on the courtyard bricks really karma for those glorious ten days in April?  flickr photo:  tingy wende Entry to TOP (Totally Optional Prompts) prompt: Revisitation What is Totally Optional Prompts? It is a community of people who gather to share ...

This post is part of a synchroblog hosted on the site Square No More. The topic for this month's synchroblog is maturity in the light of our faith. Please visit these blogs for excellent posts related to this topic: Phil Wyman asks Is Maturity Really What I Want?Lainie Petersen at Headspace with ''Watching Daddy Die''Kathy Escobar at ...

James Fowler's groundbreaking and well-respected work on the stages of faith is here ably critiqued. Worth the read.

My new friend Patti Digh, of the 37 Days (what would you be doing if you only had 37 days to live?)  blog, has just published another book--but this is not just another book...it's the amalgamation of much of her life work and passion, and its title is: life is a verb Not a self-help book, but a soul-help book. NOW AVAILABLE!  ...

As I live into the pilgrimage of Patti Digh's 37 days exercise on what we might be experiencing if indeed we had 'only' 37 days to live, I've found myself going through layers of experience.  I'm dreaming a lot, and not remembering any of them. I'm all over the place in my daily life--content, anxious, exasperated with myself, feeling sick in ...

About 13 years ago I had a dream that I will live-into for the rest of my life. In the dream, I'm part of the life of a retreat center or monastery of some sort.  The center is on an island and on top of a large plateau or mountain with ocean surrounding.  I can remember walking to the edge and looking downward and outward and feeling ...

Hope springs eternal...

This post is in response to Steve Pavlina's post: ''How to be a Man''.  He put out the challenge for someone to balance his strong post by writing about how to be a woman.  In the interest of not living in the shadow of being either an untouchable goddess, a long-suffering mother, or a bitchy, edgy vixen, I  offer the few points ...

This is a guest post from Susan Dearborn Jackson.  She will be a regular blogger on the Virtual Tea House. Stay tuned for more adventures with Susan...and maybe even with Susan's peripatetic boob. In the meantime, here's a little bio: Susan has been an astrologer for almost thirty years and has a Master's degree in Jungian Psychology.  ...

''I don't know if it's true that blondes have more fun.  But they are more fun.'' --John H., 1978, One of my first manfriends. So I went blonde last weekend. I've been some shade of red my whole life (the last few years the shade of red has been somewhat predicated on what box has been on sale).  Off and on, I've had ...