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It’s A Wonderful Life

December 17, 2011 Journal

This is a very random holiday post to end the blogging year. I’ll see you again in January – Happy Holidays! Downshift Like You Mean It I’m shutting down all my work for half of December. Last year I tried to work and it was too stressful. Preschool is closed for two weeks and trying [...]

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No Resolutions

January 1, 2011 Lifehacks

Using the word “resolution” for something you want to accomplish just destines it to fail. It sounds disorganized, undedicated, and passive aggressive, like something the United Nations would declare. Call it anything but that. Ambitions, objectives, aspirations, and even intentions sound more tough than resolutions. “Goals” is a nice direct one. That aside, making any [...]

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Hurricanes: Pack & Evac or Stay & Pray

June 1, 2010 Lifehacks

Today is the first day of hurricane season and I’ve just about finished up my preparations. This year I put together supplies for both options: a) pack and evac or b) stay and pray. Ok, so I don’t pray. But I freak out pretty well. The hurricane season forecast was just released and the verdict [...]

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Hurricane Prep: The Evac Pack

May 12, 2010 Lifehacks

May is hurricane season preparedness month, so I’m checking my stock and planning ahead. I’ll be doing a few blog posts explaining how I prep every year. The first one here is about my evacuation bag or “evac pack”. People everywhere have (non-apocalyptic) disasters that require you to leave your home or workplace unexpectedly (likely [...]

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Train to be an Early Morning Person

April 16, 2010 Lifehacks

For most of my adult life I was a night person. Between grad school, my TV news jobs, and my goth inclinations, staying up late was required. But oh how I love shaking up life, and now that I have a home office, and do writing and property managing while juggling an 11 month-old and [...]

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