Category: Life

  • Make the Most of Your Productivity by Ana Avila

    Make the Most of Your Productivity by Ana Avila

    I try to read a new book at least once a year on productivity, organization, and/or minimalism. Ana Avila has written a fantastic book on the topic of productivity. So many books on productivity today are based on business principles of doing more, going further, selling more, and climbing the proverbial success ladder. Most of…

  • Canning: Marmalade Season

    It is citrus season folks! That means, in our home, it is time to dry citrus peel and make marmalade for the coming year. That is just what I have been up to this past month or so. I dried citrus circles around Christmas and this past week I made marmalade with some blood oranges…

  • Writing it all down…

    I am never ever ready to go on January 1st with all the goals and plans and such. Part of the reason I start later is that our family hangs on to the 12 days of Christmas. My mind just doesn’t move forward very quickly into the new year because I savor the Christmas season…

  • Tennessee Adventures

    We spent a few days in Nashville with our oldest and his family before returning from our east coast trip. They have since moved due to the crazy price hikes in rent and groceries in that area. We are glad we got one more trip there before they moved. Nashville is a very busy fast…

  • A Day at the Ocean

    I have seen the Gulf of Mexico and I have been to the Pacific Ocean twice but I had never been to the Atlantic Ocean before this summer. It was truly a bucket list moment… if I actually had a written bucket list. LOL I will try to keep my words brief because the photos…

  • The Post Vacation Reading Slump

    Well, hey there! Does that photo above overwhelm you? It kinda does me right now. So many books… so little time! (that is actually the title to the book that started me on my yearly reading challenge lists, btw) I have too many choices on my plate and I have not been reading much because…