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Monthly Archives: February 2014
Day 59: Distill
Well, here we are at the end of February. Last month, I took a couple of days to review everything I had written, and to try to extract some patterns in all of these daily experiments. I thought I would … Continue reading
Day 58: Tackle
OK, so the other day I wrote about how all of this effort to bring order to the house was feeling a bit like fighting the tide. I discovered in the midst of that frustration that if I could simply … Continue reading
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Day 57: Yield
Meet our new coffee maker. No, I wouldn’t call it minimalist. Nor is it very simple. But it is ours now, and I’m sure it will do just fine. Our old coffee maker somehow sprang a leak. It took us … Continue reading
Day 56: Intend
I have been a little down on myself over the past couple of days. I’ve started to see some things slip. The past two mornings, my alarm has been set for 6:15am instead of 6am, which means I haven’t had … Continue reading
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Day 55: Wait
I have a confession to make: I’m a line jumper. Yup, I’m that guy you see in the supermarket, looking from one line to the next and then jumping to whichever one appears “quicker.” I do it on the highway … Continue reading
Day 54: Support
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how I had an easier time taking the lead than I did following someone else’s suggestions. While I hadn’t thought of it this way at first, it turns out that today’s focus … Continue reading
Day 53: Refresh
OK, today’s is a two-part challenge… and to do the second part tonight would mean scurrying out to the Farmer’s Market in the next twenty minutes, and that’s not going to happen. It seems like a much better idea to … Continue reading
Day 52: Nap
Wow, this so feels like a cheat today. I mean, come on: nap??!? I went back and forth with titles before I got started here. I’ve been trying not to recycle challenges by name, though certainly there are plenty of … Continue reading
Day 51: Mend
For the past 50 days, I have managed to blog every day, and to get something posted before the stroke of midnight. That is, until last night. Here’s what happened. I had packed up all the books that I was … Continue reading
Day 50: Unstack
Getting rid of clothing clutter–that’s easy. Books, however… that’s a different story altogether. We have books everywhere–far more books than we have bookshelf space. Books are stacked on top of books. Books are squirreled away in corners and in closets. … Continue reading
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