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    • Summer Projects and What I’m Not Doing

      Summer Projects and What I’m Not Doing

      It’s about that time of year when it’s too warm and too late for early spring gardening work and, normally, I start to panic a little. I convince myself that I’m somehow a failure if I don’t get lots of seeds into the ground and/or go buy out the plant patio at Lowes and my…

    • When Life Ramps Up: 6 Ways to Handle Long To Do Lists

      When Life Ramps Up: 6 Ways to Handle Long To Do Lists

      ***Cross-posted to ruralsuburbia.com (another blog of mine I’m trying to get back into writing for) I sat down this morning to make out my Spring To Do List (house, garden, etc.) and realized there’s more going on this year than there has in the last few. For one thing, there are new categories. House and…

    • Winter Reflections

      Winter Reflections

      Winter is far from over, as the blizzard we just had will attest, but I thought it would be a good time to reflect. Actually, I was going to post a saved draft of house project to dos for the New Year that I had written about two months ago now but it has disappeared.…

    • The Search for the “Perfect” Planner

      For the past decade or two I have been, off and on, obsessed with the idea of the perfect planner. Does this sound familiar to anyone? I wanted a planner I stuck with, that allowed me to be flexible but productive, and was easily stashed in a purse or a backpack. I wanted a planner…

    • Internet Reflections: Personal Curriculum and Bullet Journaling

      Something that always astounds me about the internet is how much it seems to reinvent the wheel.  Every few years there’s some trend that arises which sounds like a brilliant idea until I realize I’ve already been doing it. Bullet Journaling, for example, I tried for ages without too much success.  Everyone’s on Youtube and…

    • From the Archives: Autumn Feels

      From: September 2, 2017 Today we had our very first cool day.  Temperatures last night were predicted to be in the high 30s (Fahrenheit; approximately 3o Celsius) and today it is not supposed to get above 70.  This isn’t cold, really, in an area that generally has below freezing temperatures in the winter, but it…

    • 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…

    • Saying Things (and not saying things)

      Alright, so I don’t ever want to make this blog political in any way, shape, or form. Trust me, I’ve been tempted, but have ultimately decided not to. It’s not what I want this blog to be about, for one, and also I just don’t want to invite that kind of discourse and traffic. So…

    • Planning Paralysis

      Every now and then (some weeks it’s every other day) I’ll dive into a massive burst of motivation to plan for my more productive, more active life. I think that if I can just find the perfect system, schedule my workouts, and plan my meals, then I’ll be set for a “better” life. After all,…