Category Archives: Decorating/Gardening/Green
The Grass Is Slowly Growing, My Mother Is Slowly…
The death of a parent at any age is the ultimate break in the familiar and the routine.
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Filed under Books/Films, Boomer Girl-Talk, Chicago/My Hometown, Current Culture, Decorating/Gardening/Green, Life Philosophy, Mother-Advice, Uncategorized
Tagged as Christopher Buckley on losing his parents, germination versus death, hospice care for dementia patients, losing a parent with dementia, the death of a parent, Walt Whitman's LEAVES OF GRASS
The Art of Cleaning–with some zen help
Cleaning your rooms is an art. It can satisfy your creative urges and appeal to the senses, all five of them. It has a longer staying power, most times, than cooking, for the labors of the kitchen are often consumed within minutes of the completion of the task. Cleaning can last—at least a little longer. Continue reading →
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Tagged as being creative, cleaning, creative cleaning, decluttering, experiencing 5 senses
When You Won’t Be Home for Christmas
But then one day your empty-nest life is confirmed–the kids are now calling you and saying they just can’t get away. It’s your turn to travel. Change springs eternal.
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Hospital Corners and Home Ec
on a balmy summer day we fed the neighborhood children PBJ sandwiches, chips, and milk. For free! What were we thinking? Continue reading →
How to Catch a Critter, or Live with Them
The critter-catcher set up three traps. We caught two possum, two raccoons and the neighbor’s cat. Continue reading →
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Tagged as critter catcher, Gardening, woodchuck
Passive Solar Heating Creates that Patch of Sunlight
Builders and LEED designers tell us that a house or building oriented east and west with the majority of windows facing south is the best way to obtain passive solar heating. Continue reading →
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Tagged as LEED, passive solar heating, thinking GREEN, using sunlight
A Silly Mantra That Worked Wonders
laundry, linens, mending, grocery shopping, cleaning, yard work & plants, correspondence, projects— words that ran through my brain daily as I was raising three children and running a household, words that run through my brain now only occasionally as I … Continue reading →
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It’s Fall: Clean and Refresh Your Home
You stare at your bucket of cleaning supplies and rationalize: it’s only a few hours, I’ll burn some calories. But cleaning is boring and repetitive. Your mind needs firing up too. Is there a way to do that? Yes. Solution: … Continue reading →
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