The Mother Ranch Blog

A magic app AND pill for chronic illness

Jun 28, 2025
 

(I love the happy sound of Purple Martins flitting around their house!)

Happy Saturday friends!

How often does a magic pill come along? Not the kind the makes you bigger or smaller like in Alice in ...

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Tiny vignettes, perfectionism, & "good enough."

Jun 14, 2025

Happy Saturday friends!

We’ve finished week two of unpacking and miles to go before we sleep ;-) As things come out of boxes, we cover every available flat surface until night time comes and then I s...

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It’s okay to not be okay.

May 24, 2025

 Happy Saturday friends!

As with most weeks lately, it’s both happy and sad: we said goodbye to our buck Poppy, and yearling goat Rosemary on Friday. If you remember Rosemary has had an autoimmune di...

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“Peace that passes all understanding.”

May 17, 2025

Happy Saturday friends!

Before I get started: Women’s Circles: the next circle starts June 18th, contact me if you'd like to join! Wednesday nights, 6-8pm.

All through the week I had ideas on how to...

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My general contractor talked me off the ledge.

May 03, 2025

Happy Saturday friends,

Friday was one of those weird days where everything that could go wrong, did. My Aunt Katy (still in the hospital at that time) put in a Whole Foods order that I was going to ...

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Fire 🔥 Update #503: We have work dates!!! 🤸🏽‍♀️ Yippee!

Apr 19, 2025
 

Happy Saturday friends!

And a happy, happy day it is too! Goodness! This is the week we got the news, ManChild's windows have arrived, and the schedule has been made! OMG! We have an actual date of w...

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4 fun new events happening at TMR soon!

Apr 12, 2025

Happy Saturday friends!

I did it! Here are FOUR upcoming events happening at The Mother Ranch!

1 • Wednesday, April 16th, 7:00-8:30pm (EDT), Substack Livestream, a freebie paint-along class with me....

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I am her, and she is me.

Mar 29, 2025
 

The birds in the video above are Purple Martins, aren't they fabulous?!

Happy Saturday friends!

I was driving home from the farm Friday morning as a red cardinal flew by. I said, "Hi Mom!" and start...

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Gertrude the Sheep 🐑

Mar 22, 2025

Happy Saturday friends!

One morning this week I woke up from a dream where a favorite sheep I used to have gave birth to a black and white baby goat and then eventually that mama sheep turned into a ...

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Whoohooo, moving onto step two!

Mar 15, 2025

Happy Saturday friends!

My weekly illustrations all fit on one page this week:

It's fun to use the macro lens on my iphone camera, the detail of some of the itty bitty flowers in the grass is impr...

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