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Big Rocks: Prioritizing what Matters Most
Friendsgiving 2018 in our new home! Use this analogy of big, medium, and small rocks to identify what matters most to you in life so you can live joyfully every day. With a new year around the corner, I’ve been thinking recently about happiness. How does one pursue it? And even more importantly, how does…
Read MoreCorn Harvest
The field corn that is harvested in the fall isn’t what you eat in the grocery store. This corn has many different fates. Some goes to the ethanol plant a few miles from my parent’s house. There it is fermented and distilled into fuel that’s added to gasoline and powers your car. Some goes to…
Read MoreRe-Balance
A year ago I wrote a post called Balance. In it I offered productive solutions to care for mind, body, and soul. During this last year, I’ve attempted to follow my own recommendations. I’ve been incorporating yoga into my exercise, practicing meditation, and trying to sort out which social engagements I should pursue. And during…
Read MoreFinding Peace with Food
Dream Big & Shop Small
This year I’m participating for the first-time-ever as a seller next week on Small Business Saturday. If you haven’t heard of it, this is the holiday squeezed in between Black Friday and Cyber Monday. It’s a time for you, the Almighty Consumer, to support me, the tiny, hobby-like wannabe entrepreneur. See what the front of this…
Read MoreSelf Portrait
She is stronger than she looks.The grace she so freely gives is her strength – not her weakness. She likes her laugh because it feels contagious.She is always genuine, perhaps to a fault. She feels like a thread in a tapestry, weaving in and out of people’s lives; she touches so many.Beautiful,…
Read MoreWanderlust
I arrived home a few weeks ago from an almost-two-week vacay in Europe. Not really a vacation; as my brother would say, I took a trip not a vacation. A vacation is when you go lay on a beach somewhere and relax. We did anything BUT relax on this trip. View from Hohentwiel Castle in Singen,…
Read MoreHello, world.
Well, here we go. I’ve considered the idea of blogging for several years, but I always talked myself out of it. What would I say? Who would I say it to? I always thought I would be just one more person in the vast span of the Internet. Buuut then I talked to a few people…
Read MoreEvery Purchase Matters: Slow Fashion and Ethically Made Clothing
Fairly made coat, thrift store snow pants, Craigslist snowshoes, and friend-gifted scarf We live in a global society. In fact, you’re probably using a device right now whose components were manufactured in six of the seven continents on our planet. In our modern society, the surplus harvest in Russia affects the US wheat markets and…
Read More3 Big Benefits of Family Dinner
The benefits of having mealtime as a family mealtime extend beyond nutrition, helping you to connect with your children and promote healthy eating habits. Growing up on a farm in Kansas, the dinner table was always a special place for my family. During Sweet Corn Season in the summer, my parents, brother, and I would…
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