Pam Bustin
creator, editor, story tender
Category: Check Ins – Life and Work
Shake and Bake 24: ToothAchey Yum Yum Yum Edition
Hullo Yooz How went your week? For me… ’twas a week of … interesting things… Of body pain, surprisingly tasty moments of stillness and things still managing to get themselves done. I’ve had a bad tooth all week. The pain began LAST Friday, but… Continue Reading “Shake and Bake 24: ToothAchey Yum Yum Yum Edition”
Shake and Bake 23: The Right/Write Track Edition
Hullo Sweeties How was your week? I hope your winter world is warming (if you are in a winter world). I hope you found some joy and beauty. I hope you are well. For me… a lil of the up… a lil of the… Continue Reading “Shake and Bake 23: The Right/Write Track Edition”
Shake and Bake 22: The Drudgeface Edition (a PatheticPam Joint)
I So don’t want to be here. Not here, as in on the beautiful bay but… yeah, sometimes that too. Not here, as in on this earth but… well it do get tiring now and again don’t it. I cannot tell a lie. But… Continue Reading “Shake and Bake 22: The Drudgeface Edition (a PatheticPam Joint)”
Shake and Bake 21: The Deep Dark Spark Edition
Hey all. February … continues… If you haven’t noticed, It’s been a rather … hard month for me up here at the shaky shake. But it has also been a good month. There is much to be found in the deep dark. If, as… Continue Reading “Shake and Bake 21: The Deep Dark Spark Edition”
Shake and Bake 20: The Tea and Poetry Edition
There come the days when you just have to stop. stop pushing the river and sit and listen instead. be still. stop all the doings and the desire for doings and be still. This is that week. And this? This is a day for… Continue Reading “Shake and Bake 20: The Tea and Poetry Edition”
Shake and Bake 19: The Pickin’ Lickin’ Edition
Time for the Saturday Chicken/Check-in Ritual. The Quick Chicken (The Doings that help me with the Being): Walks: 5/7 Guitar: 6/7 – woot and a woot and a woot woot woot! Yoga: 2/7 Meditation: 4/7 Work on NIP: 5/5 ++ (I do Writing Hours… Continue Reading “Shake and Bake 19: The Pickin’ Lickin’ Edition”
Shake and Bake 18: The Fred and Willie Edition
OK…. hands up everyone who has had Just About Enough of this cold. Seriously. It’s -34C up here. AGAIN. Well… I’ve good news for you all. Despite my sad face at a sunny shiny Imbolc yesterday — Wiarton Willie is predicting an early Spring. … Continue Reading “Shake and Bake 18: The Fred and Willie Edition”
Shake and Bake 17: The Que Sera Sera Edition
There’s a new Assistant Librarian in town… and it ain’t me. Yep… I did indeed apply for a job at the library last week. I had a wonderful interview but, sadly, I was not chosen. Drat! The hours would have folded in nicely with… Continue Reading “Shake and Bake 17: The Que Sera Sera Edition”
Shake and Bake 16: The Up in Smoke Edition
It was just a small fire….. Friday morning… I built up the fire too fast and too freaking hot and … sure enough, I heard the roar of…. Chimney Fire. But do not fear, my pretties, all is well. There was no damage to… Continue Reading “Shake and Bake 16: The Up in Smoke Edition”
Shake and Bake 15: The one where it all shifts
If you have yet to be called an incorrigible, defiant woman, don’t worry, there is still time. – Clarissa Pinkola Estes (Women Who Run with the Wolves) Hullo, my pretties. Here we are in the second week of January all ready. I’ve decided to… Continue Reading “Shake and Bake 15: The one where it all shifts”
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