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Learn how to get rid of magazines for a boost of usephoria. It’s great to get rid of things. I have a love-hate relationship with magazines. As a writer, I love that magazines exist because they give people like me places to get published, and to get paid to do so. As a reader, I […]
Affiliate links are included for your convenience. I don’t even know where they come from. I really try to use cloth shopping bags when I go to the grocery store, or pretty much any other store. Sometimes I forget, sure. Sometimes I run by the craft store and forget to grab a bag on the […]
I love using the last bit of paint in the bottle before it dries up. Getting every stitch I can out of a ball of yarn. Reading a book and passing it on to a friend, giving it away, taking it to a Little Free Library or to my public library to shelve or to […]
I was trying out one of the ebook services that the local library offers and I requested a bunch of books at once, and it just happened that I got 10 % Happier by Dan Harris and The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin back-to-back. I don’t normally read about happiness a lot (and the Dan […]
Today is the first Monday of school, though the girl went back on Thursday. It feels like a new year in a way to me, too, since I was basically not working for almost three weeks while she was out of school. There are a lot of things I want to change about how I […]
I have not been doing all that well with my One Little Word this year. Simplify is such a great word — and I did some good stuff with it at the beginning of the year — and I have every intention of seeing it through in every way I still can with what’s left […]
I’m to the part in my book where I feel like I need to be doing nothing but knitting all the time. The reality of deadlines has finally sunk in, and I’m paring down everything else in my life as much as possible so that I can focus and knit with as much of my […]