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It’s been rather quiet around my online home this fall. As I’ve been watching this horror unfold, I couldn’t bring myself to write about organizing your pantry and homeschooling your …
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It’s been rather quiet around my online home this fall. As I’ve been watching this horror unfold, I couldn’t bring myself to write about organizing your pantry and homeschooling your …
This post was first published January 13, 2009. For reference, Caroline was 27 months old when I originally wrote this. I am republishing it with only a few little edits for readability and updated …
If I had to sum up our summer on this last day of August, this is it: You can have time or money, but rarely both. This was the summer when Caroline really understood for the first time what it means …
Many years ago, my graphic designer/web designer husband was downsized out of his corporate job. We opted at that time to turn his side business into a full time business. We were blessed to land a …
"Subscription fees are the nicotine of the digital world: get buyers hooked into paying and paying while making sure that alternatives evaporate. In other words, manufacture acquiescence. All of which …
Update: I originally posted this in April 2021. I unpublished it shortly afterward for a few reasons, but could see in my stat tracking that people were still accessing it via the Wayback Machine. I …
I want to write something here. I want to send out an email to my tiny remnant that re-upped their subscription when I changed email providers. (And I do mean tiny. Over 93% of my email list did NOT …
I realize it is going to be challenging to write this post without coming off like a total jerk. But I’m going to try. I also want to apologize to the people who sent really kind emails and …
As if homeschooling our children isn’t enough, many of us also decide to add working at home to the mix. I still haven’t decided if we’re blessed to be able to work at home or …
Over the years, I’ve tried many different blogging tools. Sometimes it was love at first try and other times it was, “This is way too complicated and not worth it even though other people …