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On Mush And Elegance: The Brown Box Quotes, An Introduction
My brain has been mush for a month. Mush. Yucky, uninspired, dare I say even depressed, mush. And writing, the process of placing nouns and verbs and maybe even adjectives in some kind of proper,...
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Organizing My Life, One Project At A Time
Did you see that photo? That’s my desktop! Really! And did you see there are just two, itty bitty little blue folders in the right bottom corner? Yes. TWO. This is the “after” shot of last night’s...
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How Education Can Work
The “Send” button has been pushed on Meg’s last college application. It’s over. She’s done all she can do and now it’s up to the admission’s gods to decide her freshman year fate. What a relief to have...
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An Officer and a Gentleman
One helluva great guy has Gone West today. To think I got to sit beside and listen to someone who visited the Spirit of St. Louis at Roosevelt Field before Lindbergh’s famous flight, who flew B-17s in...
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My Gift Is My Song, And This One’s For You
“Yesterdays are over my shoulder, so I can’t look back for too long. There’s just too much to see, waiting in front of me, and I know that I just can’t go wrong.” Jimmy Buffett, Changes in Latitudes,...
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My Alter Ego Is Named Builder Babe
“I always seek in what I see the likeness of something beyond the present and tangible object.” – Percy Bysshe Shelley The crew is here to build the deck and the fence in our backyard. Oh how long we...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Forward
Last week was a tough one. My BS filter malfunctioned and the normal stuff that doesn’t usually bother me came rushing in and left me overwhelmed by life’s nonsense. When this happens I have to go into...
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On Darwin, Adaptation and Asperger’s
Disclaimer #1: I am not a biologist. I am not to claiming to be one. I don’t even play one on TV. Disclaimer #2: I don’t study biology in any way, shape, form or fashion. Disclaimer #2a: Not that I...
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On Making What I See In My Mind Become Reality
The white picket fence I’ve always wanted is up, the deck I envisioned in my mind is built, the four cubic yards of gravel that make the patio and parking court is dispersed and the first 30 plants are...
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How To Create A Chalkboard Door
Recently a blogger friend, Erin, from Three Puzzle Pieces commented on a photo she saw of the chalkboard door I recently made. And well, since Erin is about to move into a wonderful new house, I...
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On Growing My Own Breakfast
Every morning for breakfast during berry season I pour a bowl of Grape Nuts and load it up with a mound of strawberries and blueberries. So, when my blogging friend Becky recommended I try growing my...
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How To Make Fabric Topped Mason Jars
My kitchen window faces west and let me tell you, during the summer when the temperature in the 90′s it’s almost unbearable to be in there. Finally, after 13 years in our house, I bought fabric and...
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A Supermoon, a Lake and a Moment of Zen
There is at least one person I know for sure who needs to slow down, relax and take a deep breath this morning. This moment of Zen is for you my dear… Filed under: Original Photos, Photos Tagged:...
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It’s July 1, Do You Know Where Your New Year’s Resolutions Are?
Okay. Confession time. My desktop was getting pretty messy again. So I made myself take the time to clean it up. Oh my it feels so good when I do that. And the exercise got me to thinking about...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Nostalgic
I am not a nostalgic person. It’s just not me. My favorite Jimmy Buffett song line sums up how I look at life… “Yesterdays are over my shoulder, so I can’t look back for too long, there’s just too much...
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For No Other Reason Than Because This Is Right
Filed under: Charlotte's Melting Pot, Quotes Tagged: brown box quotes, doing the right thing, inspiration, personal responsibility, principle centered living
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July 19
Today is my 48th birthday. Hot damn! And for my birthday my son got me the entire collection of The Go Go’s. I’ve been dancing around the house like the silver-haired, middle-aged fool I am and totally...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Good Morning
My favorite way to wake up and say Good Morning to the day… For more Good Mornings check out Weekly Photo Challenge here. Filed under: Photos, Weekly Photo Challenge Tagged: giving thanks, home,...
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“Do, Undo, Redo” In Construction and In Life
This morning, like the last 10 mornings, I sat in my big comfy reading chair I put in my new favorite spot. The chair’s new spot lets me look out my new french doors – 24 feet of windowed wonderfulness...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Unexpected
I thought I had it all together. This major remodeling project, this project I have waited 13 years to do. How can anything I have waited so long for be anything but wonderful I had thought. That was,...
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