Out, damned clutter! Out, I say!
While I suspect Lady Macbeth’s demons were a touch more serious than mine, I’ve lately come to realize how much the clutter in our house has paralyzed and stressed me. Five weeks away from all my stuff was cleansing, and coming home, I realized a lot of it could go. It’s hard to believe it was [...]
Time Management Tip #2 – Apply Yourself
“Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.” ~Swami Sivananda As I was writing the last post, “Stop Waiting,” a niggling part of me was saying… “well, that’s not necessarily the best thing, is it? I frequently joke about being The World’s Worst Buddhist. This [...]
A Well-Intentioned Lie
So, hi. I know it’s been since spring that I wrote anything here, and for that I apologize. A few of you have left emails and comments asking if I was ok – I am. Thanks. What I have been, however, is relatively depressed and unmotivated, struggling with day-to-day tasks and not having much energy [...]
Inefficiency At Its Worst
Some people are born knowing how to clean, some learn from others or are self-taught, yet others don’t really much care and live at various levels of clutter and crumbs in the kitchen and dog hair on the floor and piles of books and papers all over the place and bathroom lint stuck to the [...]
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Now Reading
Planned books:
- Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food by Wendell Berry
- The Lovely Bones by Sebold Alice
- A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
- Luka and the Fire of Life: A Novel by Salman Rushdie
- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson
Current books:
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The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry by Wendell Berry
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The Girl Who Played with Fire (Vintage) by Stieg Larsson
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Poachers: Stories by Tom Franklin
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Song of Ice and Fire Set: A Game of Thrones, a Clash of Kings, a Storm of Swords, a Feast for Crows, by George R. R. Martin
Recent books:
- Ill Wind by Nevada Barr
- A Superior Death (An Anna Pigeon Novel) by Nevada Barr
- Track of the Cat by Nevada Barr
- Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter. by Tom Franklin by Tom Franklin
- Safe from the Sea by Peter Geye
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