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Home Ec: Why Don’t Schools Teach How to Run a Household?
I’m a social worker, and the population I work with are the chronically homeless. This means they’ve been homeless for 5 years or longer. Before I worked with this population, I viewed them mostly as lost causes. They seemed to me, so mentally ill, that there wasn’t anyway for them to come back. Or…
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What is a Boho Hippy Home?
What I mean by Boho Hippy Home is that when I turned 14, hippy culture was making a comeback. There was a headshop in my town called Thread Heads that sold mostly hippy wears. Think brightly colored T-shirts saturated with color, hacky-sacks, incense, beaded necklaces and the like. Mexicali Blues, a hippy shop in Maine, is pretty…
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Ambient Lighting: How to Set a Relaxing Tone in Your Home & In Yourself
I burn a lot of candles. When I was a teenager living next to Salem MA, or the witch city, I remember looking back at a candle I had lit that I used to cast a love spell with. The flame was surrounded by a blanket of snow, lending the white field it was…