Archive | October, 2012

Hunkering Down for Winter

By on October 26, 2012 · Topics: Time and Tasks

(Time to read: ~ 2 minutes) I’ve been watching myself with some amusement lately. When I was a child we used to spend our summers at the farmhouse that my great-great-grandfather Rory MacLean built in the 1800s on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia.  It was a wonderful place for a child – away in […]

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Why getting organized is like climbing Kilimanjaro

By on October 14, 2012 · Topics: Space and "Things"

(Time to read: ~ 2 minutes) The person who cuts my hair is an amazing woman. Earlier this year, she and a friend climbed Kilimanjaro! I think she really appreciated that I, having had altitude sickness at less than 8,000 feet, had some tiny clue of what climbing to 19,000 feet might feel like, and […]

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