Walter   Card 0   The Fool

February 26th, 2024

For your enjoyment, I have committed for the next 22 weeks to sharing with my community at large one essay a week to go along with my Tour of the Tarot series. You can join the series anytime you wish as everything is recorded and easy to access at your leisure.  Here is the link. […]

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Have you ever wondered how I learned to read the Tarot?

February 22nd, 2024

Have you ever wondered how I learned to read the Tarot? By Bonnie Tarantino Sometime during my senior year in college, my mother took a class through our local rec department on developing her intuitive ability. The instructor was a psychic by the name of Craig Junjulas. My mother and Craig quickly became friends and […]

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Gratitude Journal

February 7th, 2024

Gratitude Journal By Bonnie Tarantino  Last night I got into bed and just lay my head down on Scott’s bare chest. I listened to his heart beat, grateful for it’s devotion to all that he loves and does. It brought me into my heart. To Gratitude. I love to sit in that chamber The one […]

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Holiday Clips

January 1st, 2024

Holiday Clips By Bonnie Tarantino I have a kaleidoscope of images from the last month called the holidays. I am glad to have them saved in my brain. Because I am visual it runs like its own snapchat feed. Maya has warned me, “I am not allowed to have snapchat because I am too old.” […]

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A Glistening Fat Fairy, by Bonnie Tarantino

December 18th, 2023

I always wake early. I have stopped wishing otherwise. There is a magic to the early morning. The vata is high, vata in the ayurvedic/yoga tradition holds the elemental energy of sprit, breath, creativity and collective consciousness.  I know the winter mornings are hard but I love coming out to the dark living room and […]

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On Day Three Of NyQuill

December 8th, 2023

On Day Three Of NyQuill By Bonnie Tarantino On day three of NyQuil I have apocalyptic thoughts. I wake up worried I may never hold a grandchild. That cancer may find a way into myself or a loved one. Or that maybe I won’t bother putting up a Christmas tree. I write and write it […]

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Track Suit Saturday

December 3rd, 2023

Track Suit Saturday When I was a young teenager, two things happened that brought me a lot of freedom and fun. One was a snow club bus that picked us up in the dark early mornings on wintery Saturday’s and took us to upstate NY or even into Vermont to ski for the day. The […]

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I Miss Loehmann’s

October 26th, 2023

By Bonnie Tarantino I am on a plane to Charleston South Carolina. It will be my first time visiting so I am very excited as I love to travel to new places. Scott has a conference which will require we dress formal for a few of the nights. This led me to the mall to […]

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Fall Decorations

October 15th, 2023

I really miss my kids today… it blew into my bones with the cool fall wind and rocked me a bit.  Maybe it’s because Maya is out in Colorado visiting Lucia and Jack is living in San Diego, a total of 2,704 miles away from here. It doesn’t not help that I keep driving past […]

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Road Trip

September 23rd, 2023

Maya and I are doing a college tour. We started in Chapel Hill, NC then Durham now we are in Nashville sitting on the rooftop bar/pool. We are good travelers. Often in the summer when the older kids were in high school and had summer jobs and Scott had to work, Maya and I would […]

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