by splendorinthesticks | Jul 25, 2023 | Diva Dispatch
Yesterday, July 24, was International Self-Care Day. I had planned to post then, but I was so busy making and taking time to look after myself, that I simply put it off until today. Something about that just seems incredibly appropriate, doesn’t it? Here at...
by splendorinthesticks | Feb 6, 2022 | Diva Dispatch
I said at the beginning of this “self care year” that I hoped to post once a week. Well, that clearly hasn’t happened, but I’m giving myself permission to be be gentle with myself in view of all that’s going on – in addition to a...
by splendorinthesticks | Nov 29, 2020 | Diva Dispatch
Being a “woman of a certain age” in the first part of the 21st century means that I have a unique set of skills, some of which seem hopelessly outdated. For example, in my shoulder-padded and spiral-perm-with-mousse high school days, I took...
by splendorinthesticks | Oct 31, 2020 | Diva Dispatch
Back in January, when I first embarked on my “year of roses,” I wrote about the labor slogan “Bread and Roses,” which was a rallying cry in the early part of the 20th century among working-class women for a living wage that permitted all...
by splendorinthesticks | Sep 22, 2020 | Diva Dispatch
Regardless of pandemics, strife, and the sturm und drang of life, the Wheel of the Year continues to turn and my “year of roses” continues to progress. Today is the first official day of fall, which means that today is the autumnal equinox. I have learned...
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