Hope your holidays were great and you spent quality time with friends and family. I had a fabulous week of family time, eating too many sweets, reading The War of Art and watching Weeds (received Apple TV as a gift and we are trying out Netflix). I made it to Crossfit on Boxing Day and
inspiration
gold medals won’t make you happy
Have you heard about post-Olympic depression in athletes? It’s very real. Even in the gold medal winners. I get this. I had my own brush with sporting excellence in 2003 when I won a bronze medal at the World Rowing Championships in the Women’s 8+ event. We qualified Canada for the Olympics with that performance
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Gifts
Minimalist Christmas: Part 2
I’m from a single parent family of six. We had some lean years growing up but we’re all now well adjusted and happy adults (mostly). When adult Christmas arrived, meaning the majority of us were employed, Christmas gift giving got some serious steam behind it. And it got expensive quite quickly. It was also stressful:
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Life
Inspired By And A Give Away: To Be Thingless Is To Possess The World
This post at Miss Minimalist has stuck with me in a good way. The last thing that stuck with me was the movie Inception. Chris and I spent a few days trying to unravel the time lines. I think this is a sign that I need to up the quality and quantity of what I’m
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Kids
The Myth Of Multiples
My one year-old son eats at the table with us for most meals. I read a book about good eating habits and child development and it suggested that children thrive when sitting at the table with adults for their meals. He sits in a booster seat with a plastic mat attached to the table in
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Life
Car-Free Update And Stuff You Need To Read
Car-Free Update November is done and we lived half of it car-free. Verdict: so far, so easy. We had one two-hour rental with ZipCar ($21.84) and one full day rental from Budget ($44.58 including a $10 fee to drive into Washington state). ZipCar was for a bunch of errands I saved up that ended up
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Declutter
Have Less Stuff: It Can Change Your World and The World
Have Less Stuff So You Can Change Your World To have less stuff is to be the oddball in your circle of friends. But it can also change the world. A few weeks ago I met up with some friends I hadn’t seen in a while. As we hugged and greeted and caught up the
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Gifts
Minimalist Christmas: Part 1
While getting rid of things I unearthed a pile of written and partially addressed thank you notes. They were neatly encased in the thank you card box just waiting to get the full address, a stamp and a drop off at the mailbox. They were a year and a half old. Also unearthed: four packages