This blog began as one women’s journey, MINE, through life and motherhood (and all that entails) in an attempt to keep her writing and honest. Through that journey I began to learn that my love of all things creative — art, music, theater, writing, decorating, etc. — in combination with my interest in discovering my own spirituality, (minus the politics and science), had unknowingly thrown me right into the middle of a 21st century Renaissance, and for the first time in my life I began to understand more and more exactly who I was, who I had been, and who I wanted to become. In the process I became curious about other moms, dads, friends, women, men, parents in general, who had gone through or who were currently experiencing their own Renaissance, or who had simply been instrumental in guiding mine. Here are our stories …