Historical Amnesia: From the Author's Pen
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I spend much time exploring dark places—places where we are typically unwelcome. There are no complaints here. I signed up for it. I made...
Mj Pettengill
- Oct 30, 2020
- 4 min
The Eye of the Storm: A Stream of Consciousness
Blogs... I usually write the first draft, run it through my editing software, re-read it a few times (once aloud), and then post it. The...
Mj Pettengill
- Oct 28, 2020
- 6 min
Emerge from the Shadows: Calling Me Home
This time it’s different. Whenever I experience the shift of one season into the next, there is often an aspect of longing. The...
Mj Pettengill
- Oct 23, 2020
- 4 min
Forget Me Not: The Illusion
Facing fear in a rigged system while raising children—keeping them warm, fed, and sheltered—is downright perilous and unpredictable.
Mj Pettengill
- Oct 18, 2020
- 3 min
Skeletons of the Past Season
I have learned to appreciate all phases of that which was once thriving and full of life.
Mj Pettengill
- Oct 16, 2020
- 5 min
Her Tree
It was hard to believe that my feet were on the same earth where Mamma’s feet once were. I wondered if the earth would have known that...
Mj Pettengill
- Oct 14, 2020
- 1 min
Nurturing Your Creative Inner Garden
It is much like tending to your inner garden and watching it grow.
Mj Pettengill
- Oct 9, 2020
- 2 min
Kids and Trains: Meet August
They would take you out and beat you senseless if they found you hidin’ in a car. I only got caught once, and that was enough for me.
Mj Pettengill
- Oct 7, 2020
- 5 min
THE POOR: LENDING THEIR SECRETS PART 4
With this new-found freedom came the challenges of women working for pennies a day while boosting a handful of already influential families
Mj Pettengill
- Oct 4, 2020
- 1 min
A Sinner Prepares For Church: October 6, 1872
I longed for the time when God shined His candle about my head as in the days of my youth.
Mj Pettengill
- Oct 1, 2020
- 7 min
Ancestral Healing: Where Does it Begin?
We continue to pass along the grief and pain of those before us, and in time, forget their origins. We inherit their losses.
Mj Pettengill
- Sep 29, 2020
- 4 min
Grandmother Wisdom: The Other Maryjane
I slid into the role of making the most incredible piccalilli east of the Mississippi River.
Mj Pettengill
- Sep 27, 2020
- 6 min
Oh, Won’t You Stay? (Just a Little Bit Longer)
I’m married to the land and creatures that share this space, drifting in and out, leaving footprints behind.
Mj Pettengill
- Sep 24, 2020
- 5 min
The Poor: Lending Their Secrets, Part 3
When we finally summon the courage to view our past, we may awaken from our troubled dreams.
Mj Pettengill
- Sep 22, 2020
- 4 min
Marya of the Wood: Follow the Ferns
Follow the ferns into the ancient past, the untold stories of the land.
Mj Pettengill
- Sep 20, 2020
- 5 min
I Screamed at God - (Excerpt)
I reached towards the wreckage of my whole existence.
Mj Pettengill
- Sep 17, 2020
- 4 min
The Poor: Lending Their Secrets, Part 2
The practice of auctioning the poor is a form of indentured servitude, a custom in this country that dates back to the first settlers...
Mj Pettengill
- Sep 15, 2020
- 3 min
Dare to Finish Last
You can be a strong force within yourself, family, and community without raising an angry fist.
Mj Pettengill
- Sep 11, 2020
- 6 min
The Poor: Lending Their Secrets, Part 1
Buried deep in the bones of the earth, in dusty, misplaced archives, and scribbled in faded, yellowed diaries, their stories exist.
Mj Pettengill
- Sep 8, 2020
- 3 min
Sitting in the Dirt: Marya of the Wood
It's all about remembering our instincts and long-forgotten wild ways.
Down from the Tree - Book Three
Samuel J. Hodgdon II
A Boy ~ A Vision ~ A Knowing Tree
The Journey Continues
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