A Mindful Life

Every day for the past week (or more) I’ve received an email notice to “spare the air” by not burning firewood, reducing car trips, and so on. There have been 24 incidences this winter alone where we have exceeded the limit; that is, air quality has been less than good. Today I had to go [...]

Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have always known it depends on whether they are jitterbugging or dancing cheek to cheek.
–Tom Robbins

Today was the first day I felt almost perfectly healthy since just after Christmas. I was able to make it to the gym for a 35 minute walk — nothing strenuous, but enough to generate a light sweat. Then I arrived home starving and ate some leftover Afghani food (lamb, rice, carrots and raisins) and [...]

Don’t knock the weather. If it didn’t change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn’t start a conversation.
–Kin Hubbard

Yesterday we signed the lease for our new place. Today we were packing with our friends, and the landlord called. It seems as though they won’t be needing the house for their son after all — maybe. They were offering to let us stay longer because something had come up in his life, and the [...]

There are three reasons for breast-feeding: the milk is always at the right temperature; it comes in attractive containers; and the cat can’t get it.
–Irena Chalmers

We just signed the lease for the town home and got the keys and garage door openers. We’ve yet to pin down a moving day — most likely next Friday or Monday the 29th. Lots to do before then. But it’s such a relief to officially have access; Husband plans to move some things himself [...]

Due to some technology problem that rendered the password protection useless (i.e., some people were able to see the entire post without registering and without the password), I deleted the contents of the password protected post. I’ll just wait until the time is right to share my thoughts on the whole web. Maybe someday I’ll [...]

In order to read the previous post, you need to do two things:
1. Click this link to create a login account. Your name and an easy password should be fine. Remember the account you create so you’ll be able to read future password protected posts.
2. Email me that you’d like the password. If I do [...]

Oh for crying out loud. Apparently password protection is useless! Someone emailed to let me know she could see the entire post in Firefox without having an account or the password.
So… if you’d like to know what the post said, I’ll email you the contents. Oops, wait, I can’t. The deleted contents I forgot to [...]