Author Archives: erin

Bucket List

Copy and paste the list below and let me know what you have done. These are mine: (X) Shot a gun – Oh yeah baby!! (X) Gone on a blind date – Wouldn’t do that again!! (X) Skipped school – Yes I have done that before, but shh don’t tell my mom :) (X) Watched…

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It’s Never Too Late…

I am a very active reader. In the sense where I read all the time and in the sense that I am quite active as I read. I have a multi color underlining and circling code as well as different ways to fold, tare and mark pager for later reference purposes. On top of this…

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Imagine A Woman

The Poem that inspired the book Imagine a Woman in Love with Herself. Imagine a women who believes it is right and and good she is a woman. A woman who honors her experience and tells her stories. Who refuses to carry the sins of others within her body and life. Imagine a woman who…

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My special group of girls…..

I received an email from a dear friend today that I wanted to share with you. Its one of those emails you are supposed to forward which I don’t love, so I have made a few changes. My Room of Women, I am supposed to pick 6 women who have touched my life and who…

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Book Review: Room, A Novel by Emma Donoghue

Wow, where will I begin on this one? I guess I should start with how I selected the book. Room came with a big two thumbs up from two of my bibliophilic friends, Julie and Vicki, whose tastes in books, and subsequent recommendations, I value. That, along with the fact that Michael Cunningham who authored…

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FLAGS: Music Review

FLAGS Album by Brooke Fraser Discovering Brooke Fraser did nothing short of change my life. I know it sounds dramatic, but listening to “C.S. Lewis Song” affirmed the beliefs I carried in my chest that I had a hard time coming to voice: that there is something bigger than me, than all of us, something…

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I AM AN EMOTIONAL CREATURE by Eve Ensler – I Love love love being a girl

I AM AN EMOTIONAL CREATURE by Eve Ensler I love being a girl. I can feel what you’re feeling as you’re feeling it inside the feeling before. I am an emotional creature. Things do not come to me as intellectual theories or hard-shaped ideas. They pulse through my organs and legs and burn up my…

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This applies to finding a good man or a good women

In a brief conversation, a man asked a woman he was pursuing the question: ‘What kind of man are you looking for?’ She sat quietly for a moment before looking him in the eye & asking, ‘Do you really want to know?’ Reluctantly, he said, ‘Yes.’ She began to expound, ‘As a woman in this day…

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Be thankful for what you have. Be creative. Be innovative.

A good lesson for all of us…….. A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet.  He held up a sign which said: “I am blind, please help.”  There were only a few coins in the hat. 
A man was walking by.  He took a few coins from his…

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Ponlop Rinpoche- Rebel Buddha

Last weekend I had the honor and pleasure of attending Ponlop Rinpoche’r Rebel Buddha book tour and conference. I would like to share with you some of the gems I walked away with. “The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.” ~Albert Einstein “Love is asking the question, how can I…

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