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Roots, Shoots and Patience

,7:00 pm

I’m all for wildflowers in the summertime but when I notice a grove of sapling sumac taking root in my yard, I realize that I have to take action. Yes folks, this is my front yard. Not a traditional lawn, but rather a wildflower field that I keep reasonably well cropped. Admittedly, it doesn’t match […]

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Close Mouth, Open Heart.

,10:50 pm

  Have you ever been sitting in yoga class with your legs folded neatly beneath you, eyes closed and hands pressed together in prayer, when suddenly your beloved yoga teacher says: “Keep your heart open.” And did you ever wonder, “how the heck do I do that?” This happens to me on a regular basis […]

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100 Things: Stepping out of Clutter

,12:16 pm

I’m giving away 100 things in 48 hours.   Why? Because in my last post, I said “I feel like I need to shovel myself out from under my clutter-laden lifestyle and my soul-numbing job. I’d like to shovel myself to a lighter way of life.” Now, I don’t know about you, but I can’t allow […]

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Shoveling Out from Under

,9:44 pm

I’ve just come home from vacation, three weeks away during blizzard season. I am digging myself out in every way in every sense of the word: work, housework, snow, snow and more snow: More than snow, though, I feel like I need to shovel myself out from under my clutter-laden lifestyle and my soul-numbing job. […]

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The Gift I won’t Unwrap this Christmas

,11:06 pm

I am sitting on the floor of the living room, wrapping a Christmas gift for my husband, when a scene from Christmas past unfolds in my mind. I spin back seven or eight years, to a time when my daughters were younger, when Santa Claus was still plausible (they still talk about the time the […]

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A One Bedroom Apartment with a Plant

,10:05 pm

Lately my husband has been urging me to prepare for the future. “I’ll be dead in five years,” he says, “and you’ll be living in a one-bedroom apartment with a plant.” Have I mentioned his flair for sensationalizing? Probably comes from his taking in too many Business Week magazine covers. Oh, and if this talk […]

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