Miz Annie's Magic Cottage

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-234087002026-08-04T04:15:51.625-04:00Miz Annie's Magic CottageAnniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07472360287845581282noreply@blogger.comBlogger9314tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23408700.post-10483758097964342742013-08-24T10:06:00.000-04:002013-08-24T10:25:08.540-04:00"White Privilege" ~ the phrase that probably doesn't mean what you think it means

I loved this post and shared it: http://www.upworthy.com/one-easy-thing-all-white-people-could-do-that-would-make-the-world-a-better-place-5?g=2 When I shared the above on Twitter it was retweeted bunches of times. When I shared it on Facebook I got one favorable comment and 2 white men saying, basically "hmmm." One a sort of defensive "I got asked for my ID too."  I should probably say,

Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07472360287845581282noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23408700.post-35373166913374679992012-05-20T09:39:00.003-04:002012-05-20T10:45:21.741-04:00Serendipity and Karma

I received an email a while ago from someone who visited the Woods Hole Aquarium in Falmouth, MA. While there she happened to spy a tiny piece of paper on the floor, and picked it up to see what it was. It was a poem about a skunk cabbage, hand-written in tiny letters on the front and back of a little scrap of paper. The poem? My poem, "Song for the Skunk Cabbage.”  The finder was

Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07472360287845581282noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23408700.post-18225759460188083002012-04-22T10:01:00.001-04:002012-05-20T18:47:01.734-04:00A Sign of Acceptance

I have a wall in my office where I post pictures and notes that my clients (all troubled kids and their caregivers) have given me. One of them says "YOUR AWESOME!" Some days I find myself fighting the urge to "correct" that note. What would it hurt? A crayoned apostrophe, an added letter "e," to make things tidy and "correct?" My undergraduate degree was in English and I have corrected grammar

Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07472360287845581282noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23408700.post-11060308311566485752012-02-12T14:09:00.000-05:002012-02-12T14:09:57.771-05:00resurrection of the blog.

Something happened after I finished graduate school and got my license and got a new job and got married. I was TIRED. So many wonderful things happening all at once but with new beginnings other things must come to an end and for me that was a lot of things. To make room in my life for an all-encompassing job that requires 40-50 hours a week, I had to let a lot of things go. You would think that

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