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5 Things You Can Do This Week for a Happy(er) Thanksgiving Next Week + Giveaway!

By Lori | Published: November 12, 2012

Thanksgiving is among my favorite holidays, but the days are long gone when all it required of me was a healthy appetite and the willingness to be kissed by various relatives. Let’s face it — Thanksgiving is a project, a large one for some and a smaller one for others, but a project that requires […]

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Make Your Voice Heard About Something Other Than the Government

By Lori | Published: November 8, 2012

You know how it is when you are almost finished with something — redecorating a room, cooking an elaborate meal, making a gift, or writing what ought to be the last installment in a blog series like Cerebral Homemaking — and your deadline looms large and at last you see that you cannot finish in […]

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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}: Staycation? Close, But Not Quite

By Lori | Published: July 12, 2012

Staycation is a new-ish word in the American vernacular, but it doesn’t quite describe what happens when friends or family visit you and you clear your calendar for that period in order to be able to spend as much time as possible together. As far as I know, we don’t have a word for that […]

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My Clothing: Editing, Organizing, Decluttering

By Lori | Published: September 21, 2012

Editing, organizing, and decluttering clothing is one of the responsibilities that comes with the blessing of abundance. I doubt my great-grandmothers had to give much time to this chore, but I have found the dressing and laundry parts of my days go much more smoothly if I spend about an hour every few months going […]

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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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