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Coming Home
I had two different home comings this month. First, we went to Charleston, SC to visit my mother in the house where I spent the latter half of my childhood. We got very lucky in Charleston, and were...
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Love What You Love: 2
Didn’t I do a post once about allowing ourselves to love what we love, to accept the ups and downs of our own energy and passions? I should really listen to myself more often. I feel like I’m entering...
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Aftershocks
I’m starting to wake up to the fact that we’re in the aftershock stage of closing down our cafe. At the very start, once we’d made that difficult decision, we were pretty euphoric. At last, we...
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Another Good Reason for Kids to Do Chores
In our house, attitude correction tool #1 is doing chores. I don’t know why I seem to need to learn many life lessons over and over (and over . . .) again before I really start to get the lesson. In...
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Yarn Along
Here’s what seems to happen every year – in late winter I’m knitting like a madwoman, in spring I have no interest in it whatsoever and start to wonder why I own all these skeins and needles, and...
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High Summer, or, The Toddler Fog
High Summer. The toddler is as crazy as the sun is hot, and if he wasn’t so gosh darn cute, I would have left him on someone else’s doorstep by now. We had an amazing harvest of black raspberries,...
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Being Here
We all find ourselves, sometimes, longing for somewhere other than here. A different stage in our life, a different place, different people, different job, different culture surrounding us. After...
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Grieving & Planning
Like many, we’ve been grieving this week for Robin Williams. Personally, I’m heartbroken not just by his death, but by how much suffering he must have felt during his life, amidst all that joy and...
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A Few Good Things
Sometimes, when I am feel grumpy, I remember to pick up the camera and look around through new eyes to find something good. It works really well – there is almost always something, once I open my...
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A Lot of Walks
Still here, though quiet these days. Mostly, I’m busy in the days with homeschooling Ella (2nd grade), my own herbal studies, and general mothering/homekeeping. By night I’m so tired that I go to...
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