one fried egg | plain greek yogurt topped with fresh blueberries | cucumber picked this morning | bran flakes sprinkled with ground flaxseed and topped with almond milk fried egg | 7 Sprouted Grains toast | cucumber from the garden | organic low-fat plain yogurt with frozen blueberries Continue reading Breakfast
“A waitress came and stood over them. She tapped her pencil on the order pad. ‘What can I get you?’ she said. Her name tag spelled out her name in all-capital letters: RITA! Flora narrowed her eyes. The exclamation point made Rita seem untrustworthy, or, at the very least, insincere.” from Kate DiCamillo’s Flora & … Continue reading Moments with Books
Recently I was skimming through a your-home-can-be-as-organized-as-mine book my mom accidentally left at our house. I was curious to see what this organizational expert would have to say about categorizing. I found what I needed in the table of contents and turned to the section on categorizing with a touch of renewed hope. But the … Continue reading If I Only Had a Brain
So Clinique discontinued superbalanced powder makeup. Talk about #thirdworldproblems but I cried. And then I felt ridiculous. It takes something like losing the perfect makeup to go through the cry–feel shame–pause–reflect cycle. It seems that I’ve established some sort of value system in which the pretty girls who care and try rank somewhere between zero and three, and the … Continue reading superbalanced powder makeup
Anyone have children that fight? This morning I was trucking through Circuit Training without Guilt & Shame for Beginners when child #4 ran outside claiming injustice and abuse. Before long the uninvited child #5 felt that lies and accusations were being shared at her expense and decided to audit the diatribe. I was unenthusiastic about … Continue reading Fear & Loathing in our Backyard
My bank account does not define me. To live without fear regarding finances. I will always, always, always, have enough. The difference between an expectation, a want, a need, and a necessity, and how to live peacefully with necessities. The term “successful” in America is often given to people who accumulate. Not many people would … Continue reading Being Poor Taught Me…
What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team By CHARLES DUHIGG Illustrations by JAMES GRAHAM FEB. 25, 2016 The Culture-Cognition Connection By Lea Winerman, Monitor Staff February 2006, Vol 37, No. 2 Research suggests that Westerners and East Asians see the world differently–literally. Why You Hate Work By TONY SCHWARTZ and CHRISTINE … Continue reading leadership articles worth your time
