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Summer: The Season of Productivity
I recently read that if you’re not producing, you’re consuming. The statement was pretty thought-provoking. I love reason and had always used it as a way to unwind before bed or on the rare rainy weekend when I was stuck inside. The past few years have brought about a lot more “free” time than ever […]
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Grow Your Groceries
Admittedly, I don’t have a green thumb. Some things, however, seem to grow despite my ineptness. Take, for example, the jungle of kale and lettuce that’s taken over my garden at the moment. I grew so many sugar snap peas that I was giving huge quantities away to neighbors and friends of friends. I have […]
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Arsenic in My Water?!
Water’s been my obsession for the past two months. It all started when I realized my jug of distilled water was empty. “Why did you use all of the bottled water?” I asked my husband. “Our water smells like a pool.” “I thought it smelled bad, but that I was just imagining it.” I got […]
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Envelope Method
In 2013, I spent two and a half weeks solo backpacking around Ireland. I had always wanted to go and decided to quit making excuses and just make it happen. My life strategy is often this: think things through, buy the tickets, and then tell everyone when I’m on my way to the airport. It […]
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Know Your Neighbors
I moved into my current home the week of Christmas and the weather was pretty awful, so it was a couple of weeks before we met our neighbors on either side. Sadly, one neighbor told us that the previous people had lived here for seven years and had only said one sentence to him the […]
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Picture These Memories
“Go pack a bag of everything that’s important to you,” Mom said. I was about eight or nine years old and it was the beginning of one of my most vivid childhood memories. I knew that my parents had been watching the news and listening to the radio for days. It was the dog days […]