How to Keep Warm
How to keep warm was something much on my mind this week. We’ve had frost and a couple light snows, and we’ve been battening down the hatches to help us keep warm well ahead of the coldest weather. We learned from last year. Last year winter spent weeks in bitter cold. The temperatures were often …
Basic Pancakes (with a lot of ideas for jazzing them up)
I’ve been spending November working on the next book in the Living Well on a Budget series – Vegetarian Cooking on a Budget. I’ll be posting some excerpts and related materials as I make progress toward finishing and publishing it. Basic Pancakes (with a lot of ideas for jazzing them up) There are a …
Making Curtains on a Budget – Part One, Getting Started
My bedroom has plain, dark brown, dull curtains. They are blackout curtains, and were the only ones we were able to find that didn’t clash completely with the rest of the bedroom; we got them when my husband was working nights. I’ve wanted different ones for ages. He’s on dayshift now, so I’ve …
Setting a Work-Life Balance
It can be hard to balance the requirements of your job and the other aspects of your life (family, children, spouse, sleep, household management, health, hobbies, friends, and so on). Sometimes Work Is the Tipping Point Sometimes the challenge comes from the difficulty of leaving work at work and keeping firm boundaries around family and …