Inner Wisdom Guide Jennifer Boire

Self-care is about learning how to go: from being busy and dizzy to being calm and centered, from worried and stressed to safe and relaxed, ...

caffeine itch in my veins tonight I try to scratch out the wildness my dark sister, can’t tame her so I will her away back to the lump in my...

A book just came in the mail from author Alexandra Pope, who wrote The Wild Genie, and whose website is linked here on the sidebar, and co-a...

It's so interesting to read about our explorations into space, and the recent anniversary of our trip to the moon - one giant step and a...

Always we hope someone else has the answer. Some other place will be better. Some other time, it will all turn out. This is it. No one else ...

Post coitum omne animal triste est /“after sex every animal is sad”. (written 2005) What is it that keeps us awake at night or early morning...

blood used to mark her territory like a wolf pissing circles round its den sniff too close, bares her teeth new gold moon stay inside my ski...

Reading May Sarton's Journal of a Solitude, I am realizing how peaceful the house is when Caitie is out (she is newly returned from Ital...

OK so I've never written a blog about my son yet. but here's a good reason to for one: A letter to my son who is heading off to Euro...

Happy Monday! after scary thunderstorms and full lightshows of lightning, after rain that overflwoed the gutters and poured all the earth fr...

The lake is oddly still this morning, a grey and silver palette of moving light, no waves but large ripples coursing towards shore, one afte...

Farewell Micheal, may the angels keep you safe. You came from heaven, to heaven you return. You came from earth, to earth you return. You ar...

and overcome it.... this is what I plan to do, and here is the quote that inspired me: Embrace your writer's block. It's nature'...

notes from my journal about busyness, writing and mothering: 'I am missing the solitude of my journal, reading a book of short stories (...

above is a link to youtube video of Graeme Allwright singing Leonard Cohen's the Stranger, in French. Geniale! a great translation which...

Read an article today in G&M Life pages, "Mommy wars" - whether full time daycare is ok for children, now that Ontario wants t...

It's funny about blogs. Now that I am aware that there are people who subscribe and follow this blog, I am more conscious about what I w...

"Taking care of kids is no picnic...it can be gruelling. When the kids are napping or late at night, it really kind of helps to get on-...

in you is the Hottest Topic. It is the news. The joy that you have in you needs to be honoured. The love, not the love mixed up with lust, ...

Today, in a singing lesson I was reminded of the importance of learning by feeling, of letting go of the mind's intense desire to 'g...