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Why Do We Really Dread the Drop-in?
A month or so ago I wrote a post called The Almost Extinction of the Drop-In. If you didn’t read it, you might want to read it first to catch up. I was surprised at the response to the post. The...
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Goals Accidentally Deconstructed
As we are on the cusp of everyone rolling out their grand plans and words of the year (my favorite!) and goals and schemes of To Do and Not To Do lists (including myself) I’m reminded of the quiet and...
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Three Timely Books I Accidentally Read Before Traveling to Uganda
Words cannot express how much I adore that our sponsored child (man/boy) Topiwo has his head down in this photo, it pretty much sums up what I could gather about his personality. Eighteen months ago...
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Passion Following
Nester wrote this post originally in 2011, but the encouragement to follow your passion continues to resonate! *** I’ve been a blogger for five and a half years. But I’ve been rearranging homes since...
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The Ugly, Valuable Before Photo
I’ve been a DIY blogger for seven years and I always regret not taking more before photos. Will I ever learn? When you are in the midst of the before it just seems like one big mess where the goal is...
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Every House Has A Silver Lining
I used to think that once we moved to the right house and really settled down, that would be when I could create our real home. Cue the picket fence and heavy crown molding. Our oldest boy had just...
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Come Anyway
As summer approaches my home anticipates the change of the season. Like the shorts I don’t care to put on, the porch and fire pit call out to me all dusty and ready to be enjoyed in the sun and they...
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Why You Have to Choose to be Absent
I’ve painted for ten of the past twenty-four hours. Not on canvas, but over the old wood window casings and that orange fake wood door that’s been bugging me for the past year and even that hutch that...
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Let the Rhythm Move You
The end of August is the New Year’s Day of summer. Even before I had children, and I’m guessing even after they are all done with school, the end of August will trigger thoughts of fresh starts. It’s...
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On Noticing, Horseflies & Seasons
Fall snuck up on me. And my home didn’t seem fall-y. And for a moment I felt a little guilty. Somehow fall is coming even if I didn’t usher it in with pretty things the color of candy corn. So, I made...
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