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Christmas Cranberry Pistachio Biscotti (Vegan and Gluten-Free)

December 11, 2013

I graduated from high school in January of 1974, three weeks after I turned 18. I couldn’t wait to graduate, and after that, I couldn’t wait to move out. My friend Susy and I looked for an apartment together in the old downtown of Sacramento. We settled on a one bedroom apartment with the address […]

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Classic Oatmeal Millet Raisin Cookies (Vegan and Gluten Free)

December 9, 2013

The season of treats is upon us. It can be hard to avoid the rich cookies and candies set out everywhere you turn in the social whirl of the holidays. But this is a cookie you can have more than one of, and have every day, too, and still stay on track. There’s no sugar, […]

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Button, Button, Who’s Got the Button?

December 4, 2013

In the first 24 hours the Slow Miracle Art Store page was “live,” I learned a lot about virtual buttons. If you happened to have tried any of the store buttons out during that time, you may have been a victim of my learning curve. I learned that the “buy now” buttons do not allow […]

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The Slow Miracle Art Store is Now Open Online!

December 3, 2013

It isn’t Black Friday anymore (thank goodness), or even Cyber Monday. It’s just Tuesday, December 3rd. But here at Plant-Based Slow Motion Miracle, we’ll christen it “Take A Look Tuesday.” After much hard work and many episodes of  “Lucy And Ethel at the Candy Factory” my online shop page, Slow Miracle Art Store, is now […]

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The Slow Miracle of My Yoga Practice: Half Moon Reflecting

December 2, 2013

  “I see the moon, and the moon sees me. God bless the moon, And God bless me.” My mother used to recite this little verse whenever she saw the moon in the sky. It enchanted me when I was small, and annoyed me when I was a teenager, and now, though I might be […]

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A Fortunate Fall

November 22, 2013

  This little watercolor of Saturn I did years ago while using up extra paint reminds me all things that spin must eventually come to a halt. I got a sudden unceremonious object lesson in this phenomenon a few days ago. I was “spinning’ with holiday cake-baking and blog-posting, card-proofing, cat-drawing, phone calls and other […]

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Gluten Free Sweet Potato Spice Cake with Apricot Carob Filling

November 19, 2013

The Buddhists and Hindus teach that earthly existence is a continual wheel of circular motion, fueled by desires that entrap us within that motion, like a potter’s wheel or a water  mill–or, to be more modern, a clothes dryer or the food processor. And as the famous actress Betty Davis once said “Life–it’s not for sissies.” […]

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Slow Miracle Store Page?

November 13, 2013

Another of my favorite poems from childhood is called “General Store” by Rachel Field. It starts out like this: Some day I’m going to have a store With a tinkly bell hung over the door, With real glass cases and counter wide And drawers all spilly with things inside. Over 50 years later, the beginning […]

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Somewhere Over the Rainbow

November 12, 2013

November is not the time of year to see the spectacular rainbows that sometimes arc themselves in the immense skyscape above the softly rolling hills of the Palouse, fireworks in breathtaking slow motion. But the other day something happened that brought the majesty of those moments back, and sent me looking for photos. I suddenly […]

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The Slow Miracle of My Yoga Practice: Here Comes The Sun (Salutation)

November 1, 2013

Last January I began doing Sun Salutation first thing in the morning. Before I committed to this practice, it had been so long since I’d done any that I could barely remember the sequence of even one round. But I found a lovely video on youtube by a woman named Barbara with a German accent […]

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