The Power of Negative Thinking

Do a Google search on the Law of Attraction and you’ll get loads of websites promoting positive thinking and how it can change your life.  While this is true, all the positive thinking in the world can be undone with a single negative thought.  If you’re ready to change the course of your life, you’ve [...]



 Pain is Power – Making Magic Out of Pain

Anyone who has experienced excruciating pain will testify to the strength and power of it.  Pain has the ability to knock us to our knees and keep us confined to our beds for days.  Pain can overpower a person and render them immobile.  What you can do with your pain will surprise you. Many women [...]



 On Being A Rootworker: Never Forget Your Roots!

People cross my path from time to time who wish to study rootwork or proclaim themselves to be rootworkers.  Some I take with a grain of salt, some I throw a handful of salt into their exiting footprints and others intrigue me.   The ones I see as genuine and sincere are those who never [...]



 Surviving the Holidays Part II

For many of us, the holidays are a sad time because of grief.  The loss doesn’t have to be recent to hurt.  Perhaps the anniversary of a loved one’s death comes around this time or just the fact that there is an empty seat at the holiday table brings back the hurt of the loss. [...]



 Nothing says Halloween like talking to dead people

Yep, it’s that time of year.  All the psychics, mediums, ghost hunters and wannabees come out of their crypts and promise to produce “messages from the beyond” “manifestation of spirits” and all kinds of stuff they want you to pay big bucks for.  This has gone on for years and I certainly don’t mean to [...]



 A Day in the Life Federal Hill, Providence, Rhode Island

I was taught from an early age to look for signs, symbols, omens, patterns…folk methods of divination handed down by the Breton French Celtic, the Irish/Scot Celtic and the Germanic people who raised me as their own. Today was an interesting day for sure…a gentleman resembling a D & D wizard came into my Federal [...]