The Karen are the largest minority group in Burma, now known as Myanmar. For many years they have fought for autonomy from the Burmese government without much success. A ray of hope was handed them during British rule. But as…
Author: Lucero De La Tierra
Firstly, I'm a mom and wife. Professionally, IT consulting is my job and blogging is the outlet for my passions. I write about things that affect the everyday life of a stay-at-home parent or any parent for that matter such as parenting, relationships, discipline, the media, product reviews, giveaways, social media, food, cooking, gardening and anything else that might come my way.
Finally, some rain. Ahhhhhhhhhh :-)
It has been at least a couple of weeks since we have had any significant rainfall. And it’s been hot, really hot. With temps up in the 90s and little cloud cover of breeze the afternoons and sometimes even the…
Evil Among Us, 2: What of Prognosticators and Nostradamus?
One vein of the occult that has popped frequently into my view as of late is prophecies by man, mainly Nostradamus. This one bothers me because the world has free access to this book called the Holy Bible that contains…
Don't Pass Up This Op to Make $50
Blogging is a wonderful pasttime. It gives us a chance to write about things we find interesting and also to find out what other people think about our soapboxes and bad days. It is so much fun to enter contests…
She Slept on the Floor
We live not a mile from some new highway construction. There are no trees or even houses to block out view of the goings on. This isn’t really a nuisance during the day, but they’ve been working all night, too.…
Supersaturated. . . Solution?
If you’ve ever taken a high school chemistry course or even a general science course in junior high you are familiar with the term “supersaturated solution”. Who hasn’t done the experiment with dissolving loads and loads of salt or sugar…
Bountiful Beautiful Blooms
The blooms from my garden are beautiful this year. Last year I had very few because the plants were fairly new. This year my daylilies and asiatic lilies have decided to bloom. I just wanted to share my bounty of…
Evil Among Us, 1: What's the Fascination with The Occult?
This will be my first in a series of posts examining this question and the origins of popular occult practices. The word occult can mean something as simple as being hidden from view. When used as a noun as in…
What is Fibromyalgia?
I ask this because I really don’t know. My mother has been fighting against a seemingly unidentifiable immune disorder for many years. She is unable to eat sugar in almost all it’s forms which for a fruit lover is torture. …
Update on Winter Sowing Experiment
Believe it or not some of my wintersown seeds that actually bore seedlings are just getting into their permanent home in the ground. I have some White Swan Echinacea and Japanese Irises that actually sprouted in June and survived the…
