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Past Blast: Channeling Olivia Walton, and Other Ways My Life Operates

By Lori | Published: September 24, 2012

We begin a new series today called Past Blast, in which I plan to share some of my writing from before In My Kitchen, In My Life existed. From 2008: It occurs to me sometimes that I have probably never had an original thought. What I think and what I do is a direct result […]

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Book Review and GIVEAWAY: Work Shift, by Anne Bogel

By Lori | Published: September 13, 2012

  Surely one of the greatest challenges for Christians is to step outside their culture (even the culture within the community of brethren) to accurately determine God’s best plan for their families, and once they have understood it as well as they can, to live it in the middle of the culture in which they […]

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{pretty, happy, funny, real}: IMK, IML Goes to Camp

By Lori | Published: August 23, 2012

Do you ever feel like all you do is cook? I really did feel like that last week when I served as head cook at a camp for girls. It was my first time at such an undertaking, and I found it first intimidating, then fun and exhausting, and finally terribly rewarding. The Goals: 1. […]

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Cerebral Homemaking Part 6 – We Like What We’re Good At: Developing Competency

By Lori | Published: August 17, 2012

 Competence drives satisfaction. We like what we are good at, and we shy away from things we think we are not good at. Car mechanics, baking pies, volleyball, spreadsheets, public speaking, settling a fussy baby, higher math – it doesn’t matter what it is – if we have had some experience and success doing it, […]

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Cerebral Homemaking Part 5 – Time Matters

By Lori | Published: August 8, 2012

All this thinking about thinking about our work as homemakers may have left you thinking: well that’s great, Lori, to decide that I need to improve my job skills and develop a vision for my home and set my aim higher than the level of my goal, but the thing is, I have a life and I just […]

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Please

By Lori | Published: August 1, 2012

I have been spending more time than usual thinking about what others like, and in many ways I find it hard going. Me, I’m easy – I know what I prefer – but when I am in charge, how much of the deciding how things will be ought to be what I think best and […]

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Cerebral Homemaking Part 4: Blast Physics! We Have to Aim Just a Little Higher

By Lori | Published: July 24, 2012

Previous articles in the Cerebral Homemaking series: Part 1: Wrapping My Head Around My Work Part 2: “Please Lie Down on the Couch and We’ll Begin the Analysis” Part 3: Lofty Thinking — About Vision, Philosophy, and the G Word In the last Cerebral Homemaking article, we talked about developing a vision for our homes and […]

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Cerebral Homemaking Part 3: Lofty Thinking — About Vision, Philosophy, and the G Word

By Lori | Published: July 16, 2012

This is cup-of-tea length, so grab a treat and a pen and paper while you’re at it. Let’s go. Here is the thing: before you can train your homemaking thinking in better directions so you can get better homemaking behavior, you’ve got to begin with the end in mind. I know what you’re thinking – […]

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In Praise of the Middle-Aged Marriage

By Lori | Published: July 13, 2012

Yesterday was our twenty-seventh wedding anniversary, and the ways in which The Husband and I spent the day are illustrative of what it means to be at this stage of our lives together. We are together while we are apart. The Husband was at work, doing what he does to help keep the country safe […]

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Cerebral Homemaking, Part 2: “Please Lie Down on the Couch and We’ll Begin the Analysis”

By Lori | Published: July 6, 2012

 Many people think of homemaking as a job that involves a cycle of doing chores and producing meals and bringing in the necessary stuff that keeps the human beings living in the home able to do what they do and the homemaker as a kind of unpaid domestic who performs those duties. Others prefer to […]

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