Seed catalogs have arrived, the weather is unseasonably warm, and I’m dreaming of getting back outside and working our little piece of land. There will be tomatoes and peppers and eggplant, oh yes! And this year will also bring cucumbers – proper cucumbers, not those nasty pickling cucumbers – and…
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Well, we’re back to our usual non-holiday routines around here. We live quite the quiet, unexciting life. Work, dinner, watch TV (while I knit), and then go to bed to read and sleep. I’m not sure if we’re just really lame, or maybe that’s normal. It’s not like anyone wrote…
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So I’ve been working on the Life Less Bullshit Why Wait? workbook the last few days. I’m not done with it yet because I’m procrastinating, but I have made my “Eff Yeah 2012” list of all the awesome things I’ve done in 2012. Which, really, is a fantastic process because I…
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For the first time in weeks I feel like I can breathe. Gradually, as the holidays approached, I felt myself becoming more stressed each day. As though I was holding my breath. Today, I feel a big exhale of relief. The holidays are over, and I’m the happiest I’ve been…
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Today I’m celebrating Solstice for the first time. Celebrating Christmas has never really resonated with me much, though I still put up a tree and participate in a lot of the traditions associated with it. This year will be a calm, quiet celebration. Practically unnoticeable to anyone other than myself.…