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Cerebral Homemaking, Part 1: Wrapping My Mind Around My Work

By Lori | Published: July 2, 2012

I’m a thinker – not necessarily a deep thinker, you understand – but I am a thinker. As I go about my life my mind is always working away at this or that idea or conundrum or situation. All of us want to improve ours and our loved ones’ lives, but at the risk of […]

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For the Record: Why is Patience Never Clearance-Priced?

By Lori | Published: May 25, 2012

This is more for me than you, so feel free to move on if your time is more valuable than what’s written here.I have managed to get tendonitis in my “good” shoulder over the last week or so, and at first I just felt like it was so unfair, so too-much-to-be-asked-to-cope-with on top of the […]

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Time Keeps on Slipping, Slipping, Slipping Into the Future

By Lori | Published: May 21, 2012

I have been spending a lot of time standing at the stove flipping crepes and standing at the island filling and rolling crepes over the last several days. It has given me plenty of time for that zoned-out, meandering, non-thinking kind of thinking that is too often missing in my life of appointments, facebook, trip-planning, […]

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Because My Hair is on Your Undershirt – That’s Why You Have to Do What I Say

By Lori | Published: April 15, 2012

Gardening is my thing in our family. Everybody else likes to look at and eat the results, but they don’t usually participate in the planting, weeding, deadheading, and so on unless requested to help. And I don’t usually ask for it, probably because I was made to work in our very large yard and extensive […]

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Balancing Balance Part XII: You Get Just This One Life – Embrace the One You’ve Got!

By Lori | Published: April 10, 2012

“Did you hear about that woman who ran off and left her family? She had a husband and little kids and everything. Can you believe that?” Now and then you hear a story about somebody who does that – a woman abandons her family, sometimes for another man, but sometimes for reasons unclear. I had […]

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

By Lori | Published: March 21, 2012

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

By Lori | Published: March 13, 2012

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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Brio, Bravado, and a Bra

By Lori | Published: March 2, 2012

Of course what you do matters, but how you do what you do matters, too. I want my life to count for something good. I care about the way my time is spent – the projects I take on, the people in my orbit, and the opportunities in front of me. It matters to me […]

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