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Jenny

"All I really need is a song in my heart, food in my belly and love in my family...."~~~Raffi

About Me


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whateverlife.comI have an absolutely insatiable curiosity. I love to learn new things, especially about myself. I've been married to an amazing man for 17 years. I'm the mother of 4 joyfully unschooled kiddos. I'm a student at NSU in Broken Arrow majoring in English and minoring in Psychology (just graduated 05/2008!) I'm trying to experience as much joy as I can as I journey my way through. Websites that inspire me........

Unschooling.org
Solarcooking.org
Path to Freedom (Urban Homesteading)
Folk Alley
MoveOn.org
You Grow Girl

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My Interests

Reading, writing, music, art, language, cooking, sustainability, home birthing, extended nursing, solar cooking, authenticity, gardening, urban homesteading, chickens, wild birds, male/female relationships and psyches in our own culture and otherwise, finding my own spiritual/mythic path/truth, thrift store shopping, recycling,JOY.

Music:

Anything that turns me on emotionally, spiritually or physically.

Movies:

Anything that causes me to see something from a new and/or different perspective or pushes me somehow to grow/change/alter/shift.

Television:

CSI (the original) but only if I'm at home and if I'm not involved in something more interesting and, well, real.

Books:

Deepak Chopra's new version of the Kama Sutra, Rumi's poetry, Shelter for the Spirit by Victoria Moran, The Antiquary by Sir Walter Scott, The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, The Pull of the Moon by Elizabeth Berg, Imagine a Woman in Love with Herself, Ten Poems to Set You Free, anything by SARK, The Prophet by Khalil Gibran, anything by Anne Lamott, Philip Larkin's poetry, Sylvia Plath's poetry....I could go on and on and on......

Heroes:

Kelly, Cari, Ruth, Sarah, Eve Ensler and all the women who make me proud to be a woman. My sweet, generous, silly, loving, adorable, sexy, yummy husband.

My Blog

Where’s my community?

I have been thinking that I need to find my people.  I have some dear friends who are crazy like me but I need some community action, man.  Where are you, my people?  The homeschooling...
Posted by Jenny on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:58:00 PST

Happy Earth Day!!! (and my lawn is a goner)

I am on a mission to do away with grass!!!  I've covered up as much as I can each spring.  I still have a lot to go but I will get it gone.  I refuse to waste precious resources to comp...
Posted by Jenny on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:59:00 PST

Mirror, mirror

Your spouse/partner/significant other just might be the mirror you need to truly see who you are.  Before deciding they have any sort of problem, it behooves us all to turn inward and slay our ow...
Posted by Jenny on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 04:12:00 PST

Planting Seeds and Singing Songs

It was hard to pick a category for this one.  Gardening fits so many "categories" in my life---political, spiritual, pragmatic, bliss (nearing feelings of romance, I tell you.)  If you're in...
Posted by Jenny on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 07:56:00 PST

Birthing

Gardening changes everything for me.  That's all.  It just does.  I hope I never get over the thrill of watching a teeny plant push itself out of the womb of the earth just days after I...
Posted by Jenny on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:28:00 PST

Trust

It seems to me that we're never too old to be influenced by who we spend our time with.  As parents, we can be so damn picky about what kind of people are kids spend their time with but as grown-...
Posted by Jenny on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 12:45:00 PST

Priorities

What's really most important?  How do I decide what takes up more of my time, energy and money?  I don't have infinite resources.  I have a certain amount of time, a certain amount of e...
Posted by Jenny on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 04:14:00 PST

Building Green

So I wanna build some bookshelves and I wanna build a deck and I wanna build a privacy fence so I can hide some chickens in my backyard.  Seems easy enough, huh?  Run down to Home Depot or L...
Posted by Jenny on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 10:11:00 PST

Solar Oven Lovin'

I finally, after much research and reservation, built my first solar oven all by myself.  I had tried to make a VERY simple one before out of an old grill and a windshield sunshine deflector.&nbs...
Posted by Jenny on Tue, 06 Jun 2006 09:56:00 PST

Peace Found Me

So, you know, sometimes I get so caught up in this head of mine and I forget to really look at what is right in front of me.  In my head I hear, "peace, peace, peace, I just want to live in peace...
Posted by Jenny on Wed, 31 May 2006 10:40:00 PST