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Surrounded by clutter? Glenda Lehman Ervin shows you how filling your home with only practical and meaningful items can help you live a simpler life.
Intentional Living
Living a Zero-Waste Lifestyle
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Is your household ready to go green? Living a zero-waste lifestyle is possible by making simple choices. Learn how to eliminate your trash with Patrice Lewis’ help.
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Hannah Breckbill
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In order to live on the land where I work, I need a dwelling, one that I can put up with a few days’ work. That’s why a yurt is the perfect choice.
Stop. Smile. Connect. Repeat.
Sarah Kroger
August 23, 2017
Putting down the phone and talking to the person behind you in line or next to you at the airport terminal is the start. It took almost zero effort and brightened her moment. It lifted mine too.
25 Ways to Use Flour Sack Towels Around the Home
Sarah Nussbaum
April 24, 2017
They’re super absorbent, lint free, and vastly superior to the decorative towels you might find at a department store.
How To Make Your Own Window Quilts
SherryEllesson
January 6, 2016
I decided to do what I always do when I want something I either can’t afford or aren’t willing to part with the cash for: make it myself.
Making Your Ladder List?
Galen Lehman
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We live in a world where we are encouraged to look out for ourselves, to seek the best, to demand the most. Even before his cancer, my friend Paul was already on a different path.
Dog, Dodge and Dietz
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Earlier this week I headed out into Ohio’s worst snow storm of the winter to spend some time in the “wilderness” of southern
Of Trees and Table Cloths
Pat Veretto
January 25, 2008
Gene Logsdon said one time that the way he planted walnut trees was to put walnuts in the ground and cover them. That
Little Horse (The Chick)
Judith Costello
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New Mexico homesteader Judith Costello returns with another engaging tale of her often spirited, sometimes confused, but always entertaining livestock.
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