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  • How we live now

    How we live now

    Yesterday I did something I probably haven’t done since my early twenties… I drove around town and just walked into any store I felt like it, to look around. I mean, I did have a list of things I needed. I ordered some hanging solar lights for the front stoop, but forgot to order hooks,

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  • This week in Vacation Planning

    This week in Vacation Planning

    Ireland is almost completely planned. Eeep! Belfast hotel acquired, and a day tour – “Game of Thrones – Winterfell Trek from Belfast,” which will take me to Inch Abby, Castle Ward, and most importantly, two hours in Tollymore Forest (the easiest way I could get there since I’m not renting a car). Some terms I’m

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  • The Best Day of Your Life

    The Best Day of Your Life

    I’m so behind in these Daily Om journal posts…. Last year I signed up for “A Year of Writing to Uncover the Authentic Self” – that’s where some of these question/answer topics come from – and this topic is Week 18. Hahaha. So clearly I’m absolutely powering right through it. Although I have to admit

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  • Brain Fight

    Brain Fight

    Yesterday was interesting, a good first day to my experiment of switching my work day around, doing household stuff and writing FIRST, and studio stuff SECOND. So of course, because it worked, I’m fighting with my brain about doing the same thing again today. “It worked,” my brain says, “so you’re good. Why don’t you

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  • Brain Dump

    Brain Dump

    Why, when I wake up in the morning, do I have the most energy and the most willingness to do ALL THE THINGS? I’m not a morning person, I’m really not! Or… am I? I like to sit out for a little bit (uh, if it’s not unusually frigid) in the mornings with my coffee,

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  • Well, that didn’t work out as planned

    Well, that didn’t work out as planned

    Remember when I was on vacation earlier this month (as much as anyone self-employed who works at home can be) and I was all I’M GOING TO WRITE A SHORT BLOG POST EVERY DAY and then that sort of petered out once I got back into working every day…? Yeahhhhhhhh. Not, like, THE MINUTE I

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