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April 2018
  • Coming Home
March 2016
  • Paradise Reconsidered
February 2016
  • An Open Heart and a Silver Key
January 2016
  • It’s not Fashion. It’s Mission.
December 2015
  • Alone but not Lonely. And Still Writing.
April 2015
  • The First Principles of Laundry: Part Two
March 2015
  • A Short Excerpt from The Laundry List
May 2014
  • The Best Mother’s Day Gift Ever
  • Mark My Words or, Something Funny Happened on the Way to a Writer’s Conference
January 2013
  • Where I’ve Needed to Be
October 2012
  • Love Amidst the Refrigerator Magnets
  • A Marriage Revealed on the Paintball Field
September 2012
  • My 100th Post: What Grace Looks LIke
  • Eating with the Food in Mind
  • Married to a T
May 2012
  • Beaded
April 2012
  • Slogans
  • And Now for the Ancient Admiral Kitchen Stove
March 2012
  • A Marriage I Arranged Myself
  • Keeping it in the Family: Taking our Daughters to Work
November 2011
  • NaNoWriMo
September 2011
  • Tea Biscuits
  • Road Testing the Mood-o-Meter
July 2011
  • Warrior Girl Dashing… Race Day
  • Warrior Girl Psyching Up…T-1 and counting
  • Warrior Girl Walking… T-2 and counting
  • Warrior Girl Dashing ….T-3 and Counting
  • Warrior Girl Dashing…T-4 and counting
  • Warrior Girl Riding Uphill…T-5 and counting
  • Warrior Girl Dashing… T-6 and counting
  • Warrior Girl Dashing, er, Climbing…T-7 and counting
  • Warrior Girl Dashing with creaky knees….T-8 and counting
June 2011
  • Warrior Girl Dashing…T-9 and counting
  • Warrior Girl Dashing…T-10 and counting
  • Warrior Girl Dashing…T-11 and counting
  • Warrior Girl Dashing….T-12 and counting
  • T-13 Warrior Girl Dashing
  • T-14 Warrior Girl Dashing
  • T-15 Warrior Girl Reporting Late
  • Warrior Girl Sick….T-17 and counting
  • Warrior Girl Dashing…. T-18 and counting, but not eating enough
  • Warrior Girl Dashing….T-19 and counting
  • Warrior Girl Resting….T-20 and counting
  • Warrior Girl Dashing….T-21 and counting
  • The Best Text Ever
  • Warrior Girl Dashing ….T-22 and counting
  • Warrior Girl Dashing…T-23 and counting
  • Warrior Girl Dashing….T-24 and counting
  • Warrior Girl Dashing….T-25 and counting
  • I’m Keeping the Name: Warrior Girl Returns
April 2011
  • Random Acts of Sharing: Chicken Pecan Salad des Étrangers Gentils
  • When the Mole Hills Fail You… Expect a Rainbow
  • Making Molehills out of Molehills
  • Parting Words: Unusual
May 2010
  • Endangered Species: Pedestrians in London
  • Signs of Life from London
  • Chuck the Checklist, Bring the Passport
  • A Stone Necklace for Mother Earth
  • Dandelions Rule
April 2010
  • The Windsurfer Stays
  • Small Acts
  • Face Cloths & Trash Mountains
  • Not a Cross Word Between Us
  • Keepers Shortlist One Fine April Morning
  • The Miracle of Ziplock® Containers
  • Kite in a Tree: the Republic of Play
  • We’re Keeping the Trampoline..
  • Prayer Beads, Buddha & Books
  • Keepers Shortlist: Easter Sunday
  • One Trophy I Kept
  • A Password Worth Keeping
  • From What I Gave Away to What I Choose to Keep
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Give Away
July 2016
  • Roots, Shoots and Patience
January 2016
  • Party Pooper: I love you, let’s try not to judge
  • Close Mouth, Open Heart.
September 2014
  • The Next Chapter: Recommitting to Giving Away
January 2014
  • 100 Things: Idiot De-Cluttering and Other Things I Learned
  • 100 Things: Stepping out of Clutter
  • Shoveling Out from Under
December 2013
  • The Gift I won’t Unwrap this Christmas
  • A One Bedroom Apartment with a Plant
November 2013
  • Be Strong. Be Safe. Have Fun.
December 2012
  • Too Many Pants and One Grey Cat
November 2012
  • James Blue and Overcast Grey
September 2012
  • Swearing Off Sweaters
April 2012
  • Things I Could Really Live Without: the Dining Room Table
March 2012
  • Things I Can’t Take Part One: Meds
August 2011
  • My Way or the Highway: the Work on the Road
July 2011
  • A Furor in the House
  • Books I Never Read & Dustbunnies I’m Going to Keep
May 2011
  • Broken Spoons, Gone to Pieces
April 2011
  • Easy Re-Entry
  • Getting Back on Track: the Repost
June 2010
  • Things I Let Go Of & What Remains: My Martial Art
May 2010
  • Gardening, Shmardening: Wallowing about in the Dirt
  • Little Tikes Kitchen: Pass it On
  • White Towels, High Heat
  • Why I Won’t Tell You What I Do for a Living
  • Knitting Class
April 2010
  • Things I Gave Away: Today’s Shortlist
  • From Thermos to Whine
  • Lawyerisms
  • Shelving Self-Help
  • Just Stuffing
  • How to Burn the Bottom Off a Stainless Steel Pot
  • Things I Gave Away: Today’s Shortlist
  • Prayer Beads & the Pursuit of Happiness
  • Dumping Superwoman
  • Trophies I Gave Away
  • Stuff I Gave Away – Today’s Shortlist
  • De-Cluttering my Daughter’s Desk
  • Missing the School Bus. Seizing the Day.
March 2010
  • Things I Gave Away: First Post
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Up in the air
April 2015
  • Facing Down Dust Bunnies and Other Beasts
March 2015
  • Love Your Life. Every Minute of It.
September 2014
  • The Boomerang Effect: Promises Made and Newton’s Third Law of Motion
  • Transitions: Taking My Daughter to University & Finding My Own Wings
June 2014
  • Bear With Me
May 2014
  • Kicking Full-Assed Out the Door
April 2014
  • Why I Do This
  • Getting Along Well With Others: The Inverse Email Response Time Rule
  • The Headache Theory Re-Examined: Flying by the Seats of our Pants
March 2014
  • Rewriting the story, Rewiring Marriage, Rediscovering the Prince
  • The Titantic or the deck chairs: the choice is yours or, uh, mine actually
February 2014
  • My Own Best Teacher
  • Are You a Buddhist? Lawyers, Labels, Rituals and Me
  • Taking the Edge off Work
November 2012
  • Anniversary
  • Guilty as Charged: I’m an UDDer
October 2012
  • The Field Between
  • Training with a One Hundred and Eighty Pound Mosquito
May 2012
  • Driving Lessons
  • Come With Me. Let’s Escape.
October 2011
  • Life on the Bandwagon
  • SMOOTHIE RULES – the marital hazards of blended fruit
September 2011
  • Rituals and Raspberry Afros
  • Mom, Can You Hand Me _____________?
August 2011
  • When You Meet a Crazy Man at the Stoplight
June 2011
  • Sorry That I Wasn’t Sorry
May 2011
  • Speaking of Detours…
October 2010
  • Clean Sweep, Fresh Start
April 2010
  • Trophies to Give Away, Memories to Keep
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Inspired

3:44 pm

Wisdom

Elizabeth Gilbert on the Genius in All of Us

Steve Jobs on How to Live Before You Die

Jill Bolte Taylor on Her Stroke of Insight

Laura Munson on Emotional Freedom

Ira Glass on Honouring Your Inner (and Outer) Beginner

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Laughter

Flame Warriors by Mike Reed

Music

‘E is for Estranged’ Owen Pallett on Q TV

‘Crash’ Kate Beneteau on Reverbnation

‘Moment of Surrender’ U2, Raymond James Stadium, Tampa, FL, Friday, October, 2009
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