*This is a letter to a support group I host from my home for young women who have had breast cancer.  We are a small tight knit group and we are just beginning to see people have reoccurence.  We thought we were invincible.  We thought, " We are young and got… Read full post »

Hello all!  I'm getting closer and closer to opening a cupcake shop, but in the meantime I'm still baking out of my home! 

"Happy 6th Sally" Cupcakes.

I spent a lot of time on birthdays last week.  My friend asked me to do 36 cupcakes for her… Read full post »

I'm still baking and sending out tiny cupcake messages.   The past couple of weeks I've been working on a 6 year olds birthday that's all butterflies and flowers and my good friend's 30th birthday as well.  Those pics will come next week once the cupcakes are delivered.  

 My newe… Read full post »

It ain't easy given the media these days, but I try my hardest to raise women/ human loving boys.  I have two of them 12 and 17 and they get filled with weird non-truths about women and I keep pouring out the flies in the punch that fill their brains.  … Read full post »

The kids left the table after Christmas dinner leaving my dad, step-mom, my husband and I to drink and talk.  I was telling my dad about a friend whose third grader was just taken to the principals office twice in the last month.  Once, because he was raising his fingers to… Read full post »

Here's my top 10 things I like about being a 40 year old woman in 2009...in no particular order! 

1.  My husband is still with me after 20 years of marriage and 3 years of dating...he didn't trade me in for 2 twenties and doesn't want too plus he knows I… Read full post »

I don't know when it happened...I'm calling it a Christmas gift, but I think that it happened slowly through many years and I just noticed it this Christmas...

My sons like each other.  

After years of talking to them about each other's merits  and thinking no one was listening and… Read full post »

I haven't been on Open Salon for awhile.  I've been busy trying to get a second career going and ran through lots of ideas of how to turn interests into a career.  I think I've landed on something I love and I am mustering up the courage to do it.  I… Read full post »

“Go to college and be able to support yourself.  It’s important for young woman.”  As a junior high and high school student of the 80’s that’s what I heard loud and clear from my parents.  College wasn’t a choice in my mind, but an essential.… Read full post »

This movie affected me.  It made me think on so many levels.  I could see myself in both Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey’s characters' . Let me start with a quick overview.   Robert Downey plays an LA reporter Lopez who does a column in the LA Times about a homeless man/… Read full post »

I’ve stopped blindly doing the things I should (or should not) do.  Who decided on the “should do” list?  Isn’t everything always changing and so what I should have done 10 years ago may no longer apply? And aren’t we all different?   Here are a few e/… Read full post »

I opened the freezer today and found plastic army men frozen head down in an ice tray.  Next to that was a Tupperware full of golf balls, toothpicks and rubber bands frozen in green ice.  It didn’t faze me I knew Truman was doing one of his “experiments”.  So I pushed… Read full post »

Everyone has secrets.  Some are big, some are little.  Frank Warren has turned secrets into a community art project and taken them to a whole new level of awareness.  He started leaving self addressed post cards in public places and handing them out to strangers asking them to simply t/… Read full post »

I didn’t have an emotional attachment to my ovaries until they were in jeopardy.  I’ve never been the girl so in touch with her body she knew she was ovulating.  When I was angry and irritable I just thought I was in a bad mood I didn’t realize it was PMS. … Read full post »

If you have to visit Hell stay outside of town and walk through.  Everyone has visited Hell from time to time.  Life sends us there on  business trips as we go through our days.  Sometimes it's just for a short stay like my sons band concerts with the screaming band teacher,… Read full post »

There should be one class devoted to The Clothes Crisis in every Psych 101 class at every major university.  They are real and every man I know has witnessed one and every woman I know has experienced one and more painfully women watch their daughters go through them.  They come on… Read full post »

My breasts are like cats, but with a third of the lives.  While cats have nine lives my breasts have had three.  All of their lives have been great!  Some of the lives ended more tragically than others, but my breasts keep recommitting themselves to me and move forward with their/… Read full post »