This morning one of the fuses blew in our apartment. Our house, built in the 1890s, has its quirks. The wiring was mismatched and confused, in not one, but three additions put on the house about 80 years ago. Luckily we are not frequent small appliance users and in the nearly six years we’ve been […]
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In our household 2013 has consisted of one week of exhaustion post holiday, two weeks of flu post exhaustion and then a week of catch up being normal. Needless to say on Friday morning last week when we made a grocery list we needed almost everything. Friday night we committed two fundamental, but wonderful errors,
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A friend of mine recently commented that I live a blessed life. My first response was jaw-dropping disbelief and then immediate defensiveness. Luckily my rapid second response was understanding. For the last five years my husband and I have married, studied our passions in grad school, lived in the town of our dreams, built an
It is the perfect time of year to talk about depression. The days are still short and the wind chill is brutal. Life can look bleak even when the sun is shining in full force. Plus we are in Kidney time and so much of depression is Kidney oriented. In my experience the fine line
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For the last five years I have been getting regular acupuncture appointments and without question the biggest change in my health has been an end to a lifetime worth of vivid dreams. Unlike the more spiritual world of dream reading and journaling, Chinese Medicine believes that dreams are a sign of disease and seeks to
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In the Western world excessive worry is either overlooked or not talked about. But what if I told you that Chinese Medicine believes that excessive worry is a physical condition that spirals into more dangerous ailments. Would you be interested in cutting down on how many nights a week you spend walking around your house
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Eat more foods that make you swoony Set a timer when using facebook Stop taking the elevator (ever) Be more honest with your closest friends Line dry your laundry (even in the winter) Be responsible for some of the food you eat: garden, can, freeze, bake, get a CSA, and/or go to a farmer’s market
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Though today I am on the mend and heading back for a shortened day, it seems like everyone I know is sick or slowly recovering from being sick. So here you have it my how best to be sick post. 1) Be Polite, Not A Martyr Going to work or to the grocery store is
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Instead of making a New Year’s Resolution this year I’ve decided to set an intention to make one change and let it reverberate through all the different areas of my life. I want to lighten my load. The physical sensation through much of December was that of being snowed under. There was too much to
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For most of us in the Northeast we dread this season all year long. It is dark, it is cold, there usually isn’t snow and there is enough holiday shopping traffic downtown to make us all cranky. December is tough and exhausting. I’m not a cold weather person as all of my students will attest
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