Botanical Perfume & Imaginarium

After all, sunshine, bright crisp air, steaming hot peppermint tea laced thick with honey, and exploring mysterious bogs are still...

October in the woods in SW Michigan, just minutes from my Three Oaks home… Moving from the heated expansiveness of summer, a refreshing...

Dust off your wings!  Faerie Festival season is here! First, here’s a little bit about faerie festivals.  Then the roundup of festivals...

Was it the new moon?  Already?  And a spring new moon! Time to plant seeds of intention! If it wasn’t for my dear friend and...

People and Places People, The Group Belize and Guatemala happened for me this past January because of adventurers Deb and Bob Stelton,...

My favorite forest primeval, Warren Woods State Park, lies sleeping under a blanket of snow and the spell of winter. I am out in the...

(in defense of  faeries) Queen Mab In the crisp, quiet snow, through the sleeping woods we quest.  The forest, at once muted and subtle,...

A solstice wish from NamasFae Yoga…. The Green Tara – Most dynamic Goddess of Compassion!  Right leg extended, signifying she can jump...

A little blog I wrote, published on the Harbor Country Chamber of Commerce website about the Acorn Theater in Three Oaks, MI.  My home...

Happy New Year! New Year’s Eve finds me pausing for a moment with my bulletproof coffee loving my 2017 engagement calendar.  All those...

The return of light, may yours sparkle and delight! My sincerest wish that you shine your inner light on your dreams and your unique...

Dealing With Bad Faeries Bad Faerie art by Brian Froud Although old as dirt, I’m still a novice.  A novice at this living thing.  Shadows...

May the rains sweep gentle across your fields, May the sun warm the land, May every good seed you have planted bear fruit, And late...

I Asked In Meditation One Morning. What’s Next? Well, how about love?  Self love.  Big love.  Unconditional love.  Love of  dark places...

Magnolia Can you feel it?  The pulsation of energy and expansion.  Summer is a time of unfurling and ripening, an outward – yang season....

To all of the fathers who bring nurturing, support, joy, caring, love, laughter, and inspiration!  We celebrate you! My Dad… #support...

Sprawled under the hydrangea bushes.  Late spring only, but the heat says otherwise, sayin’ summer already.  There is Lulu, reflecting...

I never knew I was creating a world which was an antithesis to the world around me which was full of sorrows, full of wars, full of...

Happy Mothers Day A word-scent linked portrait of my mother. The inspiration for my perfume, Anam Cara. Anam Cara Eau de Parfum Long ago...

Happy May Day! Rise and put on your foliage, and be seen To come forth, like the spring-time, fresh and green, And sweet as Flora....