Updates
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I have learned how to exercise sustainably. I use a heart rate monitor when I do my cardio, and it helps me calibrate my workout. It keeps me honest when I’m slacking, and more importantly, it keeps me from burning out by overdoing it. I’m afraid that I’ve noticed that happen. I have a habit…
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So, after a few conversations and some reflection, I think my vision of a green roof in my “what is your life’s work” post was metaphorical rather than literal. Do I quit my job as a project manager and Director of Happiness and go back to my “roots” in ecology? Farm a bunch of roof…
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I attended the RubberBand Dance Group performance at the Power Center in Ann Arbor on Friday January 9. I enjoyed the choreography, the staging, the mixture of video and music and dance, and the play of the dancers and choreography with the audience. I had a great evening, and I came away energized. I wanted…
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A year ago I decided to deepen my commitment to acknowledging all that I have received by writing posts on gratitude. This is the last post in the series. Over the last year, I’ve written about large and small things that have made me happy: knitting, food, local pleasures, yoga, meditation, family, going up north,…
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What is a Nostepinde, you might ask? I asked the same thing when I was searching online for a ball winder. For reasons I’ve never quite understood (letting knitters view the yarn in a relaxed state?), yarn stores sell yarn in completely useless skeins, which must be wound into a ball before use. Otherwise it…
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We stopped at Chipotle off of I-75 in southern Ohio on our way home from Christmas at my sister’s in Tennessee. I had never been to a Chipotle, and I was happy to learn about their commitment to naturally raised (non-CAFO) meat. Mostly, though, I was struck by the quotation on the cup in which…