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February 2010

US Airways Hates Families and Kids

February 15, 2010

If you have kids, don’t fly on US Airways. We were on three flights of theirs yesterday as we slowly made our way from Boston to Tucson. Not once was I assigned a seat near my kids. Now, I confess that when I saw I had a boarding pass for seat 5D and my kids [...]

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Hide and Seek

February 11, 2010

The girls are playing hide-n-seek in my bedroom. They are taking turns beautifully. This is how their game works: Rio: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25, 26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50, 51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75, 76,77,78,79,80,81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88,89…uh…um…Mama, what comes after 89? Me: 90. Rio: Oh! yeah, 90. Well, sometimes I need to think for a long time about what number comes next and then I remember but then [...]

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Keeping a Journal

February 10, 2010

Yesterday I wrote about several steps to making a life change stick. Then in the shower this morning, I thought, “Oh! I need to write more about journaling vs. simple record-keeping.” And sure enough, the first comment on yesterday’s post was from the always thoughtful Rebecca Weger, saying, “The most important piece for me is [...]

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How to Change Your Life

February 8, 2010

I have a post up on Get Rich Slowly today about getting the ball rolling with financial management, where I talk about “cross-training” skills from one area of your life to another. Here, I want to just quickly lay out a recipe I use for making meaningful personal change in any area. You may recall, [...]

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A Picture of a Monster

February 6, 2010

Dear ChildWild, I you all to see these pictures I made. It’s about a game on my mom’s phone of Sesame Street. It’s really silly and it has silly background screens. Love, Rio

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The Power of Small Change

February 5, 2010

Fakeplasticfish has a post up about conflict between couples about green living, in which she quotes my post from last week about making green choices together. Beth Terry, the woman behind Fake Plastic Fish, has gone to amazing lengths to cut plastic out of her life. Last year, she produced something like 4 pounds of [...]

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And the Cat came back

February 2, 2010

This is Monster. He followed me home one day when I was 17 and he was a few weeks old. He had a spot of white paint on his forehead and was very hungry, and he cleverly snuck in the front door ahead of me and braved the wrath of the other resident cats to [...]

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