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One of my favorite young adults and bloggers is Hannah, who writes on Alimental about her daily life and healthy vegan food (the recipes and photos are amazing!). Recently, she reviewed her 2011 resolutions, listing them by category and assessing her progress. Here’s a sample: Exercise every day. Mix it up. Running is not the …
Summer may not officially begin for another three weeks, but I am thinking of the start of summer as June 1st. Our son is home from college. I submit my grades tomorrow. Let the long, languid days of sunny reading and writing begin. This summer I’m especially excited, because I am slipping into it with …
Happy Monday, everyone! What are your plans for this week? Is it obvious that I woke up in a positive mood? I think I know the reason. Yesterday afternoon I continued my re-reading of Barbara Sher’s Refuse to Choose!, and when I woke up this morning, I thought about one of her exercises early in …
Today I finished reading Solomon’s Oak, a beautiful novel by Jo-Ann Mapson. Solomon’s Oak introduces us to three characters who have each suffered loss: Glory, a recent widow struggling to keep her California farm; Juniper, a foster teen haunted by a family tragedy; and Joseph, a former police officer who bears the scars of a …
I haven’t been online much in the past couple of days because of a cold that makes my itchy eyes balk at the sight of a computer screen. However, I’ve been using some of this time, appropriately enough, to start reading The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, by Nicholas Carr. It’s …