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Balancing Balance Part XI: When Changes Come – Staying Light on My Feet

We have spent a good bit of time in this series talking about how to choose and manage the various activities that make up our lives.  We have thought about how to recognize the ways we spend our time. We have discussed how our personal filters act as gatekeepers to let in worthwhile pursuits and […]

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Unsolicited Advice Book Report Edition: Bringing Up Bebe; One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting by Pamela Druckerman

Before-you-read-further-caveat Repeat this aloud: Lori is an imperfect human being. Therefore, Lori is an imperfect child of God, wife, mother, daughter, friend, and advisor. In some fashion, she messes up pretty much every day, so I must not read her words and think: She believes she is perfect. She believes she is superior to me. […]

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Listen to Your Mother: Push Up Your Sleeves and Get to Work

This is my mom, Carolyn. Hi, Mom. Here is Mom a few weeks ago, celebrating her birthday. I chose this photo to provide public proof that at least once in her life she was given “the special plate” at our house. Pay no attention to the fact that I forgot to pull it out for […]

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Unsolicited Advice: Put Your Servants to Work

No, we aren’t talking about your kids – that’s another post. This is about your twenty-first century servants, the ones that usurped the positions of human servants not long after the turn of the twentieth century. You know, the ones that heat things up, cool things down, and make things clean. Did you ever read […]

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