Tag Archive: personal choice

The Power of Financial Balance

I got a package in the mail!  And really, who among us doesn't like getting a package and need to share that fact with all three of her readers? A couple of weeks ago, Kelly Whalen at

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What Are Your Priorities?

The Washington Post has a very interesting, albeit buggy, little doodad: the POTUS tracker.  It is a calendar that creates a graphical representation of how President Obama's schedule.  The idea is to generate a picture of what issues, groups and individuals are getting the President's time and attention, to give the viewer a ...

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Stop Looking for Work-Life Balance

How many times have you told yourself that you need to find a better work-life balance?  Well guess what?  Work-life balance is a lie.  I know sometimes you feel like a zombie at the end of a long day at the office.  But unless you are actually undead at work, in which ...

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Why Change?

"Environmental solutions that depend solely on will power are doomed to fail," states David Owen, author of the soon to be released book Green Metropolis, which was recently reviewed in the New York Times. Owen argues that cities are the answer ...

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Saturday Morning Sustainability – A Week in Review

What makes for a "good week" in sustainability news?  Lots of news?  A week more or less devoid of major crises?  Big breakthroughs in science and technology?  Maybe it's just a week of active and constructive dialogue about sustainability and the big picture?  This week was definitely the latter. In Living Sustainably in the ...

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Climate Change Is Just Like Raising Baby Mice

Today's post was supposed to be about how to build a great garden for free, which is what I was planning on doing today. Instead, it is about a baby mouse, which is what I spent my afternoon doing.  Because that's just how my life goes.  The garden will still be there. Mice are near ...

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Julie & Julia and the Importance of Intent

I have been waiting impatiently for the release of Julie & Julia. I confess to having a bit of a crush on Amy Adams, and more than a bit of a crush on food. Not to mention that, as a blogger, this little (BIG) blogging success story was just what I ...

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Breaking, Unsustainably

So I’ve been gone. For a long, long time. But I promise that I have a good reason – reasons, actually. We did get our internet back after about a week of intermittent outages. Then, we found out my boyfriend was deploying. He’s in the Army, which is how we ended up ...

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