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Building a Firepit, Building Relationships: Getting Cozying by the Fire
The older I get the more I realize that I enjoy the cozy things more and more. There’s a line in a Jay-Z song that sums up how I feel, “I don’t want much, I drove every car. Some nice cooked food, some nice clean drawahs”. And I think, for me, there’s not much…
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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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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…