Today’s Book Spotlight is on Elements of Fun: 14 Nature-Based Projects to Enjoy with your Children.
Lady Sialia has put together over a dozen projects related to the four elements, all with Nature-based themes. The book is not specific to any particular religion but Nature-lovers and followers of Earth-based spirituality will appreciate the suggestions. This [...]
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Originally published in Third Degree of Freedom.
Two women from the Philippines are helping me with a home project. They’re smart, they work hard, and they’re compassionate. Traits I obviously admire. And even though they’ve both been handed their share of tragedy, they still agree, “Life is good.”
One is a single mother of six who just [...]
Balancing work with play at Grayton Beach State Park. Photo credit: Aislinn Bailey
Have you ever discovered that your intentions came true, just not in the way you planned? Happens to me all the time.
A little over a year ago, I put the intention out there in a Law of Attraction exercise to take [...]
Originally published in Third Degree Ebb and Flow.
My third workshop for the Florida Pagan Gathering was fairly crowded. I never saw several of the attendees at anything else related to the weekend events. Maybe they were aliens or angels or something just dropping by!
In any case, that was the workshop on building worm holes, Field [...]
Today’s Book Spotlight is on Salt and Fire: Cleansing and House Purification Rituals. Lauren Hartford uses a “novel approach” to explaining how to perform a complicated (and possibly dangerous) ritual to cleanse your home. All details are provided in the form of a short novella, covering the materials needed, the actual process, the [...]
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Occasionally I get questions on the books sold through this site, particularly on ones I’ve written. I frequently write new articles that are related to some of these books and new insights that have arisen since they were published. Some of those articles will be incorporated into future editions, but for now, they’re [...]
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My dearest, darling Lorna:
We are about to send you someone who will tell you some great and useful things, many of which you already know but need a new way of thinking about them… but the real gift will be more in what this man shows you than in what he [...]
Book cover for Working through Grief: Tips for Coping with the Pain of Loss
Traumatic experiences, grief, and loss can take a heavy toll. Death, dying, divorce, sexual abuse, and suicide aren’t things you just “get over.” You have to heal them from the inside out.
Forget everything you’ve heard about “getting over it” and coming [...]
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Cindy Lu’s The Four Man Plan: A Romantic Science dating guide offers advice that may help you attract back the love of your life—or at least attract a social life in the meanwhile.
The most difficult thing for people looking to “attract back” lost lovers is to stop fixating [...]
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The Male Submissive has no problem purchasing a “submissive man” book for his domme or for seducing a dominant woman–as long as he can do it discreetly.
Here’s what happened.
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Can’t attract back an old lover or friend using the Law of Attraction? Maybe it’s YOU who changed.
When you’re trying to attract an old friend or lover back into your life and seem to be getting nowhere, consider that the other person may remain the same-and that it’s YOU who’s changed.
In this day of [...]
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The Long-Awaited Honest-to-God Secret to Being Happy
(Plus 23 More Tips for Living Your Joy)
Author: Lorna Tedder
Publisher: Spilled Candy Books
Available in pdf in a condensed format for easy reading/printing.
Ebook (PDF) $19.95
Special for our blog readers: $9.95 at http://www.spilledcandybookstore.com/The_Secret_To_Being_Happy.html
If you enjoy making others happy (or trying to) to the point of losing your own happiness—and [...]
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Around the riverbend, life is sometimes pretty amazing.
Photo by Chan Worley, Copyright all rights reserved. Used with permission.
Inexplicably, things suddenly seem shinier than they have in previous years. Given the state of the world at the moment—and the state of my current social trend toward being, well, unsociable after several of my dearest ones had [...]
I know, I know. After everything you’ve heard about Kristin being all evil from those Generation Hex authors, you probably expected her new cookbook to be about newt eyes and Hansel and Gretel cookies, but nope, sorry.
Instead, you get 188 pages of really wonderful and different recipes that will keep you from ever having another [...]
I’m not sure whether to be appalled or amused by the news, but one of Spilled Candy’s long-running books is apparently a bad influence. Here’s the message I received from author Kristin Madden:
“When Pagan Parenting first came out, the Fundie Christian Right compared me (and MTV) to Hannibal Lecter. Now a new book entitled, Generation Hex: [...]
About a decade ago, my friend Vicki Hinze had a literary agent, Helen Breitweiser, who was a blast to be around. Helen was young, hip, intelligent–and had a mouth on her. That was part of her charm. (In my opinion, at least.) One of her favorite phrases was to refer to someone’s literary masterpiece as being [...]
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Not everyone keeps a Book of Shadows in the “traditional” way. You know, the hardback tome of paper, perhaps even wrapped in some kind of animal hide or decorated with all sorts of magickal symbols.
In my guest room, affectionately known as “Brian’s Room” because of his extended summer stays, I [...]
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Highly recommended–here’s a beautiful book for the Autumn season, beginning today!
Mabon: Pagan Thanksgiving (Revised)
Author: Kristin Madden
Trade Paperback, 6×9, 280 pages
Publisher: Spilled Candy Publications
ISBN 978-1-892718-68-6
Acclaimed homeschooling author Kristin Madden shows adults, parents, teachers, and children how to celebrate the Autumn of the year with myths surrounding Mabon (the Harvest), customs and traditions from around the world, recipes, [...]
See that light blue dot in the panhandle? That’s me. My relatives are all pink and purple. Photo credit: National Weather Service.
I have to be careful about admitting this because people will throw rocks at me. There’s something about hurricanes that I just love. Two somethings.
First of all, there’s the raw power of Mother Nature. [...]
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One of my favorite bloggers is my 18-year-old daughter, Shannon, and her Randomista site. (I’m not the least bit prejudiced about it, either!) She’s a bit of an academic and posts thoughtful essays about the random things in life that interest her (wonder where she gets that from), whether it’s raising funds for earthquake survivors [...]
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Over lunch with “Luna,” we heard the news that Professor Randy Pausch of the now-famous “Last Lecture” had passed away. We both paused, tears in our eyes, to honor this man we had known only through his lecture and subsequent book on fulfilling childhood dreams. He was an inspiration to [...]
Control Your Submissive Boy:
150 Ways for the New Domme to Master Her Man
This book is written within the context of a loving female-led marriage or long-term relationship between a man and a woman because we do not believe there is enough credible instruction and idea-generators available for the new domme or [...]
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This post has been removed due to harassment issues by readers searching for information on Dr. Matt Dorman, who inspired this essay. The article is now included in the book, Give Your Life Direction.
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If there’s one tip that I would have loved to have included in Gifts for the Goddess on a Warm Spring Morn, it’s something that one of my Circle members told me right after the book went to press–a great tip for drying herbs.
Granted, here in Florida, it can be quite hot in the spring [...]
