Let’s Kick Monday off with Randomness

January 9, 2012

I’ve been quiet. I know. I’ve been quiet in reaching my goals for the past week, too. Transitioning back after the holiday has been harder than any transition I can remember in recent years. Productivity has not been something that has been my friend lately. That needs to change. [...]

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Food Prices & Hunger: How Are You Coping?

January 4, 2012

I’m talking about rising food prices and hunger over at BlogHer today. I’d love it if you’d join me and share your thoughts!

I went grocery shopping the other day and came home with an empty wallet (despite growing much of our food ourselves, I might add) to read that, according to the United [...]

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Everyday Beauty: Better Late Than Never

January 3, 2012
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My Grandma always had an Amaryllis in the house in the winter. Tucked into a dusty corner of the kitchen, beneath the shadow boxes full of salt and pepper shakers and the cuckoo clock, between the record player and the Pieta; it’s one of those things I’ve never forgotten.

This year my Mom [...]

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Randomness: Sugar & Confusion Edition

January 2, 2012

I almost titled this Randomness on a Sunday but then I realized that it’s Monday. And I was afraid for myself, because when I start forgetting what day of the week it is there is no longer any denying that things are not what they should be. But, alas, soon the kids will [...]

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Cultivating 2012: One Word for the Future

January 1, 2012

Today’s Prompt: If you could choose the word that will describe the theme of your life in 2012 what would it be? Why?
Reverb is traditionally a December activity, but I couldn’t really think of any better way to welcome the first day of the new year than with the one word I’d love to see [...]

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Places I Recently Found Sugar

December 30, 2011

I thought I had a pretty good handle on what it would mean to go sugar free in 2012. I’ve been reading labels since my teens when I found out that I have food allergies. I know that there’s sugar hidden in dressings and condiments galore. I am well-aware that most snack [...]

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Cultivating 2012: The Days

December 29, 2011

Believe it or not, today is not shaping up to be an ideal day. I slept in almost two full hours longer than usual, am still in my pajamas almost two hours after that and have consumed nothing but guacamole and lime flavored tortilla chips — my favorite — since awaking. There’s not [...]

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Randomness: Really, Really Random Edition

December 28, 2011

There are groceries all over my kitchen just waiting to be put away. It’s been a whirlwind day. Pictures of the results will be coming soon. I hope. It has to do with that streamlining I’ve been talking about. And it better work, because honestly? I need my sanity [...]

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Cultivating 2012: The Fifty-Year Plan

December 26, 2011

I always joke that my five year plan is actually a fifty year plan, because nothing seems to get done in a timely fashion. The truth of the matter is that I haven’t ever actually sat down and made a real, honest-to-goodness plan of it. I have ideas in my head, things I’d [...]

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Schnauzer Sunday & A Very Merry Christmas to You

December 25, 2011
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Potato pancakes. Mimosas. Watching kids play with shiny new toys. And The Man, too. Christmas is one of my favorite days of the year.
A month’s worth of build up for fifteen minutes worth of flying paper and ribbon. The elation on faces makes it all worth it.
We’re [...]

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