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A reminder just in time for summer vacation

Posted in Life, Home & Community, tagged , , on April 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Note: This is a recycled post, the second in a series while I take a journal-blogging break. I hope you enjoy the off-topic jaunt. Silly Mommy, trips are for kids! May 10, 2009 Funny how memory works. We swear we will never take both kids to the grocery store right after school, then we do again… [...]

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Fry-daddies and other down-right scary things

Posted in In my Humble Opinion, Life, Home & Community, tagged on March 22, 2010 | 8 Comments »

This post is off topic but a necessary rant for me (thanks for listening). I’m not one to promote TV shows or popular culture issues or to insert highly Google-able words just to get readership. If I was in this for high stats I would change my focus – “journaling” isn’t exactly a hot SEO. [...]

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Simplifying, one (beautiful) dish at a time

Posted in Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Life, Home & Community on February 17, 2010 | 7 Comments »

Last week our dishwasher began rinsing with chunky, mustard-yellow water which then pooled in the bottom of the machine. Hubby attempted to fix the problem to no avail and I descended into minor panic mode. I can’t keep on top of the endless piles of dishes, pots, and cutlery as it is and now I [...]

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Finding my rhythm

Posted in Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Life, Home & Community, Writing & Career, tagged , , , , on January 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Children don’t know about rhythms, not the ones we adults recognize, anyway. Their internal beat is like one from another culture – African, Asian, Alien – that is not the 4/4 we Westerners are used to.  Time is of no consequence. Play always, eat whenever, sleep only when legs will no longer run.  Until my [...]

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Perpetuating our own truth

Posted in Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Life, Home & Community, Living Authentically, Memoir, tagged , , on December 31, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Even before I got out of the car I questioned why I was here. I had pulled myself away from a cozy fire and good company to go out into a chilly, damp December night. I was about to walk into an overheated crowd of locals, some of whom I hadn’t seen for twenty years [...]

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Code Red: Avoidance

Posted in Life, Home & Community on October 18, 2009 | 4 Comments »

If avoidance had a color it would be red. Red alert. WAH. WAH. WAH. Avoiding talking about the state of your bank balance with your spouse. Avoiding going to the doctor with that chest pain. Avoiding thinking about how much you are drinking. Avoiding your journal. Fortunately, I am not avoiding my journal (not today, [...]

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1991 called

Posted in Life, Home & Community, tagged , on December 18, 2008 | 5 Comments »

I think I have mentioned before that I am addicted to planners. Not a bad addiction when you consider the options. But I fear I am woefully out of date (pun intended). I watched the movie 27 Dresses where the main character Jane, played by Katherine Heigl, is a perpetual bridesmaid and wedding planner for [...]

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Just asking

Posted in Life, Home & Community, tagged , on December 13, 2008 | 5 Comments »

Why is it…1. After you spend 20 minutes stuffing your children into their five layers of winter clothing, hats, mittens, and boots, they stay outside for exactly 2.2 minutes? And then after peeling them back out of it all, leaving a puddle of melted snow and ice on the rug (in which you step in [...]

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Not in Kansas… er, Vermont, Anymore

Posted in Life, Home & Community, tagged , , on November 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »

I just have to say I’m not a huge fan of New Jersey. I’m sure it is a lovely state – in spots; it must be called the Garden State for a reason – but from where I’m sitting, it ain’t so grand. The wind is howling around and right through my 8th floor hotel [...]

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Driving ourselves to debt (pt 2)

Posted in In my Humble Opinion, Life, Home & Community, Living Authentically, tagged , on October 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Hello, my name is Joanna, and I am a Shopper. OK, I admit, I’m a shoe whore. I also like to be surrounded by pretty things. I love matching dishes and coordinating bedrooms. I prefer to have the perfect weight jacket for the temperature and the most appropriate mode of transportation for my baby (i.e. [...]

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