Mortgages Go Minimalist and Other Matters

Monday Morning Coffee Time! There are a lot of “M” words for today’s post, like mortgages, motherhood, moving around, missing my cat, making time, etc. Mortgages: One of the local real estate wizards in my area tweeted a link to an article about Obama’s Making Home Affordable program, specifically about how Fannie Mae- and Freddie [...]

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On Defining Minimalism

There’s at least two ways of looking at nearly anything. Minimalism is no exception: is it the ultimate cynical luxury of the privileged, or is it mindfulness and appreciation of essentials? Or a mix of both? How about when we look at a house without much stuff in it: is there very little by choice, [...]

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Monday Morning Coffee–Clothes and Such

Good Morning, Monday Coffee Mates! It’s overcast and 50F, likely to reach 68 as we enter a warm humid spell this week. This inevitably happens after I put the finishing touches on a sweater, so all must be right with the world. Keeping the wardrobe weeded out is an ongoing thing. Like many of you [...]

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Strands Become Sweaters–Eventually

Okay, so you know I knit. Last summer I started a top-down raglan cardigan using CotLin from KnitPicks. It took a while to figure out what size I was, get the gauge right, etc. The first attempt was all one color, in what I thought was going to be “natural,” but turned out to be [...]

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Time for Some Changes

It’s time for a bit of spring cleaning and redecorating on the blog, and some changes will be appearing over the next few days. No worries–it will still be the same blog with sundry writing by yours truly, but I wanted to step things up and expand my range of topics to include more lifestyle [...]

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