Booklets by Download

Moonlady Media is pleased to present booklets by download, unveiling in 2007. After selecting the booklets you want, simply pay by credit card via PayPal. You will be directed to a web page where the booklet will automatically download onto your computer desktop. You can store it and print if desired. The booklet is a locked PDF document, so you will need to download a free copy of Adobe Acrobat to view it if you don't have it.

We’ve not yet worked out the kinks of the purchase software and programming. Please check back again! Leave us an email with which booklet you want and we’ll contact you when they’re ready.

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Creative Writings

~ 3-Minute Essays and Other Short Delights
~ Witch of the French Opera, Mad Mother Instinct and Other Stories

3-Minute Essays and Other Short Delights

For a few years I was a regular commentator for the local segments of KERA 90.1 FM Morning Edition. The result are polished little pieces, usually under 700 words, lasting no more than three spoken minutes. Also included are some short essays deemed too dicey or sexy for broadcast, and a few poems, including the popular Science of Sweat. Great bathroom reading or to keep in your car for reading at stoplights and in traffic jams. Quirky and eclectic, inspirational and moving, these pieces really get you to thinking.

Table of Contents and Excerpts (tba)

$5 (also available as a printed and bound booklet; available someday as spoken-word CD)

Witch of the French Opera, Mad Mother Instinct and Other Stories

Occasionally I pen longer pieces, but with the same first-person conversational style. Witch of the French Opera is a real ghost story set in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Mad Mother Instinct is a funny yet disturbing tale of rescuing my dog from some crackheads. Just plain funny is a fictional piece, Carole Lombard's Got to Pee. Rounding things are a few surreal fables including Falling and The Last Conversation.

Table of Contents and Excerpts (tba)

$5 (also available as a printed and bound booklet; available someday as spoken-word CD)

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Rituals and Ceremonies

~ Hibachi Herbal Magic
~ Herbal Sacred Space

Spirit Herbs

Leading seasonal ceremonies in public parks presented challenges. How does one speedily smudge a few dozen people? I mean really smudge, not just some passing wisps of smoke from a smoldering smudge stick. The result is Hibachi Herbal Magic, featuring instructions on how to use a hibachi full of charcoal and herbal blends for group purifications, offerings and sacraments.

Purifications immerse the body in a cloud of smoke and come in a sage-based solar/fire blend; a lunar/water smudge blend especially nice for women’s and lunar ceremonies; and one for releasing past antagonisms.

Offerings are aromatic herbal sprinkles that release a cloud of incense smoke. Herbal recipes honor the Moon, Sun and four elements. A spirit food blend is perfect for connecting with ancestors and nature spirits, and a tree temple blend serves as a communion with the World Tree.

Sacraments contain powerful psychotropic drugs and are for immersion or inhalation. Use with caution and never without the recommended lung buffer blend. Blends include aphrodisiac, trance and deep meditation.

$10 (available someday as a printed and bound booklet)

Herbal Sacred Space

Another challenge of holding ceremonies in public places is purifying and defining sacred space without drawing a lot of attention. These herbal blends that are perfect for that: simply sprinkle about. They’re good for the soil, too! But they also work at home or office. Perimeter protection blend deflects negative energy; use it to define sacred space. Positive space blend absorbs negative energy; great for purifying the ground. Sprinkle the prayer dance blend to enhance connection with the Earth. Happy mix is an attractive salt-based blend to display in bowls for absorbing negative energy – great for offices and squabbling roommates! Rounding out the recipes are herbal blends to steep with warm water for foot washing prior to sacred walks and an object wash to purify secular objects for sacred use.

$10 (available someday as a printed and bound booklet)

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Wildlife Habitat Rehabilitation

~ Poison Ivy Primer
~ (Never) Bite Me (Again)

Poison Ivy Primer

Let my first-hand experience help spare you the perils of poison ivy. Learn how to identify p.i. in all seasons, even winter, and anticipate where it grows so you can avoid it. Get tried and true methods for eradicating p.i. and instructions on creating your own p.i. battle gear. Discover products that can block p.i. from reaching the skin, lotions that remove p.i. oils from the skin if used within 20 minutes of exposure and scrubs that do the same if used within two hours. Many come in handy single-use folding wipes and lotion packets. Learn how to avoid the most toxic forms of p.i. exposure and when to go for professional medical help. Plus tips for preventing the spread of p.i. oils, and controlling the itch and healing the skin if you end up with p.i. Fascinating factoids about the toxicity of p.i. oil and its peculiar preference for humans. Bust the myths of p.i. with this booklet!

$10

(Never) Bite Me (Again)

Make your stay outdoors a pleasant one. Learn how to beat back the bugs for a non-itchy – or worse! – experience. Ants inject an irritant, spiders inject a poison, mosquitoes pierce you to suck blood, and chiggers decompose your skin. Each bite is a very different process, requiring a unique method to prevent and to heal. Learn how different bugs sense your presence so you can avoid them. Discover several homemade or ultra-cheap bug repellents applied to the skin and how to use DEET products safely, plus ratings on over-the-counter natural and synthetic repellents. Investigate airborne area-wide bug repellents that come in stationary and carry-along versions. Understand the histamine process in the body so you can reduce the itch and scratch safely. Some tried and true itch-relief first-aid products and methods.

$10

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All material herein ©2006 Amy Martin unless otherwise indicated.