Fluorites are considered minerals by some. Others say fluorite is a calcium fluoride crystal with a hardness of 4. Of course, we think of them as stones without getting so specific. Fluorite lent its name to the property of fluorescence, the display of vivid glowing colors in ultraviolet light. Today, some people believe stones like fluorite [...]

Rub your hands together. Feel them get hot. What causes that? Is that heat thing like lightning without the snap crackle sizzle? Could it be in any way related? Rub your hands together and now see how far you can move them apart and still feel something–heat, tingling, something like magic between your hands. That [...]

  Here at the POFFF we believe. We believe in ourselves to feel better than we ever imagined possible. So come here to play and discover wonder and delight. Find your fascinated, encouraged and feeling-fairy-fine fantastic self now! Open Sesame. I Ziggy Zoomba. Zippideedooda, Zippideeay!

Artist/author Melanie Stinson wants to visit your school. She has incredible stones, magic art cards, enchantment to spare and cool moves. Melanie attended Crim School in Bowling Green, Ohio, as a child. She would like to visit Crim School with her arts enchantment experiences. She looks forward to going to other schools in northwest Ohio. [...]

TRANSPARENT BUTTERFLY: All things beautiful do not have to be full of color to be noticed: often in life that which is unnoticed has the most power. Transparency–what does it allow us to see? See-through. Clear–as in clarity–or as in Clear as mud? Why do we talk the way we do? Ever wondered that? And [...]