Archive for July, 2006

Ebb and Flow

Monday, July 31st, 2006 by Madeleine

Now that I’ve rejoined the menstruation club (see “Starting over at 38”), I’ve also been reconnecting with its related emotional and energetic cycles. Not that I didn’t have my share of inspirations, feelings and meltdowns when I was pregnant and nursing, but not with this intensity, and not on a predictable schedule. PMS for me can look like everything from manic creative energy to over-the-top emotionality to barely suppressed rage.

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Our new website!!!

Thursday, July 6th, 2006 by Madeleine

It’s taken several months to complete the stunning new version of our beloved website, but she finally launched yesterday. It has been quite an adventure that has brought up some interesting challenges and growth for everyone involved. The process has even dragged me, a realtive neo-luddite, into the back-end workings. What a great confidence-builder exercises like this can be. You see, at the end of 2005, Suzanne and I were faced with the choice of either adding endless bits and pieces to our existing site, or to bite the bullet and put out for the full-on latest and greatest e-commerce platform. At the time we analogized it as either getting our respectable beater of a car forever serviced or going for a new BMW. BMW it is, and girl, is she fast and pretty and smart as all getout (though admittedly, this image doesn’t quite do it justice).

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