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How Much Manure is in Your Job?

by Dawn | Apr 8, 2013 | family, food, leadership, nature, organization, politics, satire, self-improvement, simplicity, sustainability, Teaching, wellness

The snow has melted. There is a really loud bird singing outside the window. Crocuses poke through the dirt, and the Yankees just got clobbered by the Red Sox–it’s spring. Time for growing stuff.  This weekend, we constructed the garden. At the old house,...

Crumpled Paper Airplanes. On Taking My Own Advice

by Dawn | Feb 22, 2013 | family, organization, parenting, self-improvement, simplicity, spirituality

We are making paper airplanes, Declan and I. Listen to the sound of crumpling and fits. “I CAN’T DO THIS!!!” “Sure you can. Let me show you….you just crease it right here…” Two seconds of effort. Crumple. Toss, Yell....

Four Seasons of Frugal: Why I’m Grateful to the Great Recession

by Dawn | Jan 12, 2013 | family, food, gratitude, organization, politics, simplicity, sustainability

It all began with blips on the financial radar in 2006. I was pregnant with Declan–the hero of some of these stories. The universe was about to come crashing down. I felt it. I wasn’t sure what was about to happen only that something was wrong in the...

Glitter, Garbage and Gratitude

by Dawn | Dec 15, 2012 | family, organization, parenting, satire, Teaching, technology

Yesterday I made a strategic error in lesson planning.  I wanted some old-school fun that disguised learning. Some “edutainment.”  I needed the quickest of projects that showed mastery of the Bill of Rights, synthesized some research, and didn’t look...

Life Hacks: How to Survive without Any Common Sense Whatsoever

by Dawn | Nov 25, 2012 | family, food, organization, satire, simplicity, sustainability

I have no common sense. If Thomas Paine gave me an autographed copy of his opus, I’d still lack common sense. Some would say this makes me creative. People like me would say this, for example. Others would say this makes me a disaster of epic proportion waiting...

Avert Disaster: Organize for the Holidays!

by Dawn | Nov 23, 2012 | family, food, organization, satire, simplicity, sustainability

Thanksgiving snuck up on me. It was a busy year–buying and selling a house, doing the staging, showing, and construction leading up to the sale/purchase, moving, dealing with the “finer points of education reform,” writing, creating, blogging,...
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