Category: daily living | Page 5 | A Year of Reading (with gratitude)

March 12, 2019

Today is the 30th birthday of the World Wide Web (1989). We began our business one year earlier with a computer that had a 10

March 11, 2019

Yesterday, Steve and I sat down with our newly washed collection of dish towels, deciding it was time to cull those that are too thin

March 8, 2019

Time for a practical post. In our never-ending search for using fewer of the Earth’s resources, we wanted a solution for taking beverages in the

February 26, 2019

When I am feeling the winter blues, I am grateful for the spectacular beauty of the blues of winter.

February 19, 2019

Some things make life easier. Having lived in many older apartments, I became an expert at laying down Contact paper. I wanted clean surfaces, easy

February 13, 2019

My grandmother began working as the cook for a doctor’s family in the small town near their farm when she was 18. Her brother was

February 8, 2019

When I was quite young, my grandparents had a mail slot in the front of their house. It was metal. There was a flap that

February 7, 2019

On this Minnesota day, I am GRATEFUL to be working from home, as I have been for 30 years. (When I first began working from

February 6, 2019

What’s your best place to think? Mine is in the shower. All kinds of ideas are borne in that soothing cascade of water. I get

January 31, 2019

I know, what a weird thing to be grateful for, but this cheese grater is important in our lives. Roughly 20 years ago, I started

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