attitude

How to get a spider out of the laundry tub.

May 11, 2009

Whoa … don’t leave just yet. Some of you fear spiders; some of you tolerate spiders; some of you live with spiders. This post is for all of you. One of the frequent guests in my laundry room is a nice crisp very active spider. After doing a little research I do believe he is [...]

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The week of the beast

April 10, 2009

  The Beast by Theodore Roethke I came to a great door, Its lintel overhung With burr, bramble, and thorn; And when it swung, I saw A meadow, lush and green.  And there a great beast played, A sportive, aimless one, A shred of bone its horn, And colloped round with fern. It looked at [...]

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Wash floors or refresh attitude?

April 2, 2009

What delighted me today? After a week of cool, windy, rainy days, this morning promised warmth and sunshine and blue skies. The wind unexpectedly gusted from the east all day bringing more spring weather. So I threw open the windows (love the sound of that phrase but actually they glided open easily), picked up around [...]

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Step 1 Time to clean the nest

March 10, 2009

Do I like an organizing challenge? Oh yes, especially when it is my home. Two months ago our son came home from graduate school … with a truck stuffed full of his thirty something life. You see, he is being deployed to Baghdad and the military thought fit to yank him out halfway through his [...]

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