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Are the Zombies Next?
Yesterday, I was leaving the Reading Terminal Market, as I do probably at least once a week. The Reading Terminal is a block from the courthouse, as well as the train station, and while it may be a great spot for tourists, it’s also the best place to buy fresh produce (and of course, the occasional Amish donut – oh my! The sugar just melts on your tongue!). What I’m saying is, this is a habit, a routine, a weekly occurrence – so you would think that this giant art installation right across from the entrance/exit to the Market would have caught my attention before yesterday: This giant sculpture is in an alley…
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Sheep Whispering
I had a really light hearted weekend, so I thought I’d do a lighthearted post to get the week started. And, when I say light hearted, I mean exactly that. An incredible weight has been lifted from my chest. And, this weekend marked the true return of the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival, the High Holy Day of Knitters. Oh, the festival returned last year after a 2 year hiatus due to Covid, but it rained mercilessly, and was frankly, zero fun. This year, the sun was out, the crowds were back, the yarn was awesome, and the sheep were chatty. BAAAAHHHHH! So what were those sheep saying? This guy took a second…
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Tarot Reflections on Crying in the H Mart
I love Target. It has everything. Need a quick grocery item? Check. How about a birthday card? Done. And vinyl records? Yep, with a cheesy Target exclusive Hype Sticker. Love them. So, Joe and I often pop into Target to pick up say, frozen DiGiorno pizza, but . . . end up drifting to the vinyl section, which happens to be back to back with the book section. A few weeks ago, I picked up Japanese Breakfast‘s new album, Jubilee at Target, a fun, poppy, frothy, sugar candy confection of an album. The next week we again found ourselves in Target’s record department, because of course that’s where you end up when you’re…
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Getting Back on Track with The Stunning Tarot
When I started this blog, I had such good intentions. I’m going to post twice a week! I’m going to have a planner and schedule my posts! I’m going to keep a journal, and keep track of my post ideas! I am really going to commit! Sigh. Life gets in the way sometimes, my friends. I’m really busy at my real world job, but there is a light at the end of the tunnel. I should be free and clear in two weeks, and hopefully back to my well intended regularly scheduled program. One of the posts I have in the brain hopper (yep, I haven’t even had time to put it in…
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And the Wind Replied
Yesterday, I left my office to lug what felt like 10lbs of laundry to the dry cleaners, and was annoyed that I had to detour across the street because of construction. As I set foot on the opposite curb I noticed black Sharpie graffiti on the old marble building adjacent to ours. Really? Who would do this? It’s not a bathroom stall at the Walmart. I hate graffiti. But, I was curious. “Do yourself a Favore Heather Please Do Not Talk to the Wind Like it’s Something that Cases You Really Look Like And Asshat.” I continued walking to the dry cleaners, but at least I had now forgotten the 100 lbs bag…
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Oprah Book Club Tarot Style
Oprah’s latest Book Club pick, her 100th, is Ann Napolitano’s Hello Beautiful. Hello Beautiful, the saga of the four Padavano sisters, working class Catholic Chicago girls trying to live up to parental and cultural expectations while at the same time pursuing independent lives, is an homage to Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. Little Women is still my favorite book of all time, so if there was an homage out there, I was going to read it. I can’t say I read it with an open mind. Indeed, I read it with a critical mind, the kind of mind Louisa May Alcott’s Marmee, who gifts her children Pilgrim’s Progress to guide their young moral…
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Friday Tarot Link Love
Happy weekend! The weather here is shite, and while I’d like to step away from my devices, it’s probably not going to happen. If you’re looking for some tarot goodness, here are a few things to check out: Camelia Elias has a new book. The talismanic version is sold out, but the paperback is available on Amazon. If you’ve never read Camelia Elias, you can read this essay to figure out where to start. In the mood to craft? Want to get your sew on? Sew silk tarot bags with Catomancy Tarot. Watch my friend Jess discuss in a completely genuine and authentic way how she does tarot in response to #Howdoyoudotartot? Don’t…
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My Tarot Story
When I was a teenager circa 1986, our local radio station, WMMR, hosted a somewhat annual parade, the Louie Louie parade. It was just what it sounded like – folks marched down Broad Street singing Louie Louie, over and over again. That was it. That’s what fun looked like in 1986. So, a bunch of us took the train into town from the suburbs, Louie Louie’d our way down Broad Street to South Street, land of record stores, bookstores, novelties and new age stores. Very arty compared to the strip malls of the suburbs, and we felt super cool. In one of the New Age stores, Garland of Letters, which is still there,…
