The One Notebook Principle

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    Category: House and Home

    • Looking Out My Back Door

      Once upon a time, in the older days of the internet, we used to offer digital cookies (the chocolate chip kind) to people who understood references the poster/author thought were clever and somewhat out there. Do people still do that? Anyway, this title is a song reference and once it came into my head I…

    • What is the opposite of writer’s block?

      No, really, what is it called when you have too much to write about and you don’t know what to write about first? Is it called anything? Anyway, this has been my problem lately. There is so much I could write about that I just haven’t written anything. Then it occurred to me that I…

    • From the Archives: Lawn Mowing

      From: 4 June 2022 Today I used a reel mower for the first time.  Our decision to buy a reel mower was predicated first upon my fiance’s dislike of the sound motorized mowers make, not that I disagreed with him.  The environmental benefits and not having to buy and store fuel was also a plus…

    • Rural Suburbia: Cross-post

      Rural Suburbia: Cross-post

      Written Date: 7 March 2022 My sister lives in classic suburbia.  Her streets have sidewalks and are arranged, oddly for New England, in a block formation.  My nephews will be able to walk to school once they are old enough to do so.  She and my brother-in-law know their neighbors by name and it is…