Author: Calamity Jane
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Is Your Sustainable Life Sustainable?
I have been thinking a lot about sustainable living, and the so-called simple life lately. Dixiebelle wrote a self-flagellating post recently about her wicked fall into a fast food lunch, and in general about falling short of one’s ideals. Oh sweetheart. I’m not particularly old (33) but I came to this “green consciousness” early, I…
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1R/D to a Clean House!
I’ve been meaning to give you an update about my new 1 Room a Day to a Clean House plan, and now seems as good a time as any. I have a fat list of blog subjects in my line-up, but cleaning is what I’m doing right now. So, to refresh, the 1R/D plan goes…
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Get Back in Line, Fool!
I didn’t think I was bragging when I wrote The Glory Days a few weeks back. I didn’t mean to be bragging. I just meant to appreciate the moment, you know, not take good stuff for granted. But apparently someone Up There thought I needed to be bitch-slapped off my high horse and back into…
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How I Came to be Heaving 60 Pounds of Screaming Kid From a Waldorf Open House
You regulars out there are wondering where your semi-reliable Saturday post is, right? Well, it all started when I ate my breakfast, Saturday morning. I had been feeling just dandy since I got up, a whole hour to myself to drink coffee and read. I was on top of the world really. Once the kids…
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The Glory Days
I hesitate to say my life is easy lately. I don’t want to give anyone the wrong idea. I know there are some readers out there without kids and, no offense, but our standards are just different. I’m quite sure that if you spent the day with us, you would not consider it easy. But…
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