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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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Stressed, Mom? Look at Your Fridge and Learn a Lesson

By Lori | Published: August 6, 2012

Staged photo — I would not be able to function with my fridge covered with fluttering papers like this! Well, I would not be able to function happily, at least. There is a fascinating short article over at the Wall Street Journal web site: The Stuff of Families. Researchers studied 32 middle-class families for four years […]

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{pretty, happy, funny, real}: Ordinary-Extraordinary

By Lori | Published: August 2, 2012

Pretty The anenome ‘September Charm’ has just started to bloom this week. I look forward to these sweet, five-petaled, soft-pink blossoms every year. Happy The tomatoes are finally arriving regularly from the vines. Six weeks or so of tomato-bliss! And, lots of zinnias to cut for the house from a couple of clumps in the […]

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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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{pretty, happy, funny, real}: Obsessive Gardener Edition

By Lori | Published: July 19, 2012

This is all Pretty, Happy, Funny, and Real rolled into one. I dabbled in gardening, messing around with herbs and tomatoes and green beans and the odd petunia, for many years before I really started to get into it about 10 years ago. Like all hobbies that begin to get a little more serious, gardening […]

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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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Unsolicited Advice: Five Ways to be a Particularly Good Guest

By Lori | Published: July 9, 2012

Some friends of ours vacationed for a week in Washington, DC and bookended their time there with two weekend visits with us. They are a family of seven, with children ranging in age from two to seventeen. We have been fortunate to have all kinds of terrific visitors in our home, but I guess because […]

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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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